The Bunch Head to Nebraska for Thanksgiving

Had a lot of fun at the Gaylord's Ice exhibit.

We did it. We took three kids and one crazy out of control dog on a 1300 mile round trip excursion to visit family in Kearney, NB. We travel a lot, but this was our first trip with an animal. We usually leave our animals at home and hire someone to care for them, but our new shelter dog is beyond clingy and I couldn't even ask family to deal with that! We did discover she travels much better locked in her kennel than out loose with us. We took the Navigator and the third row just barely accommodated her kennel with room for one kid left over. Being able to freely get in and out of the car without psyco dog tearing everything up was great. The trip up was cold, but sunny and with limited stops took about 11.5 hours.

We were treated to a snowstorm just in time for Thanksgiving. We spent great quality time with our family and had a blast watching 3D movies on their new movie projector. Our dog wasn't too bad and it helped the entire basement area was our living quarters so we only encountered their dogs on potty breaks. They locked up their dogs for a few minutes while ours went out and everything went smoothly. Our dog was definitely not ready to be friends yet, but maybe on our next trip she will be ready to be introduced. The trip home worried me a lot because of the huge ice and snow storm that pretty much had a direct hit on our entire route home, but my worrying was needless. Everywhere else had snow plows, and while the exits and parking lots were extremely treacherous, the highway was perfectly clear. We maintained a 60 to 70 mph speed on the highway and limited our stops to avoid the exits and parking lots. I guess ice is only an issue in Texas where we don't have snow plows, sand only helps so much.

We decorated our house for Christmas this weekend and are still the poster child for the fireman's lesson on what not to do to your outlet. I do make sure to unplug everything in any kind of inclement weather, but it still all plugs into one outlet! I have a great start to my holiday shopping and look forward to Christmas break to enjoy all the local festivities.

Memaw was so excited to see us.

We had a wonderful meal.

Frozen in 3D on their new movie projector...so cool.

She really thought she fit!

This is a great museum that creates an interactive tour of life on the Oregon trail.

This museum was a real gem.

A birds eye view of what the hwy looked like after the snow.

This is really a thing there. Tried it when we got back...not too bad.

I told you we were the poster child for what not to do!

Beautiful Scenery on our trip home, still took 11.5 hours.

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