Nebraska City

I love Nebraska City!! It is truly one of my favorite things about living in Nebraska in the Fall. It is the cutest little town will so many things to do and explore. I've been going to NE City since I was a little girl with my family and it's a tradition I have continued with my own family. I remember taking Ellie when she was just about 4 mo's old! So we took advantage of the beautiful weather on Sunday and headed to NE City for the day. Normally we just go to the Tree Adventure farm area and have a carmel pie sundae treat and then go through the Tree Adventure, pick a few apples and then stop at Kimmel Orchard on our way out (Dave loves the sunflower seeds they sell there :). But today we decided that since we have a state park permit we might as well go through the Arbor Day Farm state park----WOW--it is gorgeous! I wish we would have been smart and brought a picnic but now we know for next time (and we will probably go one more time this Fall I've decided!) They had free hayrack rides through the park so we hopped on that and went on a ride through the park. Then they had Apple Pressing demonstrations so the kids got to see apple cider being made. Then we of course had to get our bag of Kettle Corn and fight over it and then we let the kids play at the little park that I didn't know was there! What a great place. When I was a kid we used to always walk through the Mansion but we haven't done that with the kids because I don't think they would really appreciate it at this point. But it's fun to see from the outside and I think next year we will definitely make that part of the day--I bet Ellie would now love to see the inside. It just scares me think of my little kiddos "running" through the mansion and breaking something---yikes!! So maybe next year :) After that we finally headed over to the Tree Adventure area and realized we didn't have a ton of time because we had to be back for our Sunday night dinner with Grandma and Grandpa. So we had our snack from the Pie Garden and then headed to Tree Adventure. My kids LOVE that place and I love how they could spend hrs exploring it. It is truly magical to watch them in nature! I hate to always "rush" them through things so I was really trying to let them just enjoy it. What a great place that is. I know Fontenelle Forest has something similar to it for kids that we haven't been to in a while. They loved the giant tree house that you can climb and they loved the station where you could record your voice and listen it (I think it's supposed to be something where they are listening to things in nature but of course my loud kids were using it for something else--oh well!!) We spent a lot of time in the Tree Adventure that we had no time to pick any apples :( Bummer---no we will just have to go back another time this Fall :) We stopped at Kimmell Orchard on the way out for Dave to get his sunflower seeds (that he painfully shares with the rest of us) and then headed back to Omaha. Such a fun , fun day. One of my truly favorite family days during the year!! I swear I will figure out this posting pics things someday and be able to post pics to this darn blog----UGH!!!!