We woke up in our hotel and were pretty excited to explore Omaha! We did a quick little bit of organization and work to get ready for the day (of course we had a little bit of wine while we were prepping!).
We had until 11:00 PM the next day (The Zephyr is in each city every 24 hours) and planned on going to the Train Museum but it was closed (lazy buggers). We also planned on getting super-awesome-best-in-the-whole-land steak but kinda gave up on that as too much money/work.
Omaha in general is much bigger than Ryan remembered from when he had been there before, and seemed pretty cool for a little city.
We left our luggage with the guy at the hotel and walked around the city. We started off our walk with a ...sorry Omaha... really gross thing that is popular there called a Runza... Sort of a goopy onion-y paste in a fried pastry. Not our style, I guess?
We walked toward the Missouri River, stopping off at one of the nicest Steakhouses in Omaha... for a beer. A nice beer though! A Nebraska IPA. We were pretty happy when we found out that after tip for both pints we had only spent $10 and then we were a little concerned when we found out that Nebraska IPA is 9%! Nebraska is not messing around with their IPA's!
After a few conversations we walked the final block to the pedestrian bridge over the Missouri River to watch the sunset. It was awesome. We stayed there watching the amazing flow of the gigantic river watching the sun go down. A strong memory for both of us.
We knew Omaha wouldn't be complete without a visit to a steakhouse, so we stopped and had a steak in Old Town, which was, sadly, only medium. Bad Omaha!
On our way back to the hotel we visited a fancy hidden cocktail bar where we had to go into a liquor store and ask for a $1000 bottle of wine. Thankfully we weren't just pranked by the internet and once we were shown where the bottle was, it pushed through into a secret bar where we had Flaming Moe's. They weren't really Flaming Moe's but they were flaming and pretty cool.
Omaha in general is much bigger than Ryan remembered from when he had been there before, and seemed pretty cool for a little city.
We left our luggage with the guy at the hotel and walked around the city. We started off our walk with a ...sorry Omaha... really gross thing that is popular there called a Runza... Sort of a goopy onion-y paste in a fried pastry. Not our style, I guess?
After a few conversations we walked the final block to the pedestrian bridge over the Missouri River to watch the sunset. It was awesome. We stayed there watching the amazing flow of the gigantic river watching the sun go down. A strong memory for both of us.
We knew Omaha wouldn't be complete without a visit to a steakhouse, so we stopped and had a steak in Old Town, which was, sadly, only medium. Bad Omaha! 
On our way back to the hotel we visited a fancy hidden cocktail bar where we had to go into a liquor store and ask for a $1000 bottle of wine. Thankfully we weren't just pranked by the internet and once we were shown where the bottle was, it pushed through into a secret bar where we had Flaming Moe's. They weren't really Flaming Moe's but they were flaming and pretty cool.
Then we picked up our bags, snuggled up in our seats for the 8-ish hour train ride to Denver. We started watching a movie and eventually got sleepy and gave up.
Bye Omaha and Hello Denver!
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