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Nebraska State Fair Day 9

1. You could enjoy a funnel or you could have some fried Girl Scout Cookies from King’s Funnel Kings! The Caramel Delights fried will taste like heaven for you!

2. Talk a walk through the cattle barn and see plenty of cows from all over the state there are plenty to see from calves to big steers.

3. The Budweiser Clydesdales are here at the state fair and you can register to get a free 6-pack.

4. Put your name in a drawing to win a Ford Escape from Ford.

5. What is a state fair without country music? Last night Billy Currington bought good country music to Nebraska with his concert!

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Nebraska State Fair Day 7

1. Nitro Ice Cream. The ice cream is cold and creamy, taste similar to custard but better. It is located in the exhibition building.

2. The Tiger Show. Check out 7 tigers putting on a show and you can stop by and see them in their cage all day long.

3. The Girl Scouts have free samples of their cookies in the commercial 4-H building.

4. Want a state fair souvenir, T-shirt, sweatshirt or something else? Then be sure and stop by the official State Fair Store.

5. My favorite marching band today was Bruining-Davenport they did an awesome job marching and an even better job with playing their songs. They bought a lot of life to the fair this morning and got my attention.

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Ricky and Lucy’s Country Greenhouse

The other day I was in Sidney, Nebraska and I visited Ricky and Lucy’s Country Greenhouse that is just north of town about 7 miles. It is not the greenhouse that I was thinking of that would just be a big clear tent with plants, it was more than that. The place has trees, flowers, schrubs, herbs and spices growing all around inside a greenhouse and outside. It’s pretty and peaceful so if you have lots of time on your hands you can sit on one of their benches and just enjoy time outside. Lucy and Ricky’s has great landscape including a waterfall and they even make and sell pottery. The best part of the trip is that they make spices and pastas that you purchase to take home. I purchased a pack of lemon peppered fettuccine and sweet potato fettuccine. If I lived in the area the place could be a new hangout of mine on cool spring and fall days just to sit outside and read a book.

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Nebraska State Fair Day 5

Today I was not at the fair. It was my day off so I traveled to a few different places in Nebraska. Be on the look out for blogs on those places as soon as I get them written up in the next week!

Thanks to all my fans who continue to read my blog and I am excited to keep providing more information on places in Nebraska.

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Nebraska State Fair Day 4

1. The Nebraska Wheat Board was serving up chocolate chip cookies today and they were delicious as always like each year.

2. iCan the showbot. iCan is a robot that rolls around the state fair talking to people and playing music. iCan is representing Napa Auto Parts, so if you are at the fair and see iCan be sure to go up to him and say hi.

3. If you wan a real experience with fair food then you should defintely eat food from Topper Connessions stands.

4. Sand Castle carving, check out the tent by the commercial exhibit buildings to see professional guys carving sculptures out of sand.

5. See baby pigs, sheep, cows, chickens in the birthing pavilion. University of Nebraska-Lincoln vet students are on site to answer any an all questions about the baby animals.

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Nebraska Veterans Memorial

Recently Alliance, Nebraska developed a new Nebraska Veterans Memorial. The memorial is a cemetary grounds for veterans who have served time in the military. I was able to see this brand new cemetary a few weeks ago when I was out in Alliance and it is absolutary beautiful!

My dad’s side of the family grew up in Alliance and I still have plenty of family living there. My family had a bench made and dedicated to my grandma’s brother Edward Collins who served time, died in a war and is buried in the Phillipines. I have several family members of mine who have served, especially my grandpa. I am so proud of them and everyone else in this country who does serve their time.

The cemetary is still brand new so there is not a lot there, but it will be exciting to see everything that will be adding to the cemetary in the future. If you are ever up by Alliance be sure to stop and pay respects to our state’s veterans as a thanks for serving our country and protecting our freedoms.

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Hotel Wilber

Wilber, Nebraska is the Czech Capital of the United States. It is also the home of Hotel Wilber, a unique accommodation on the 2012 Nebraska Passport. My parents and grandparents are originally from Wilber, so I have visited this cute hotel many times. They serve brunch on Sundays and breakfast, lunch, and dinner on most of the other days of the week. I would say Hotel Wilber is one of the places all people from Wilber take pride in the most. The building is older and brings out a lot of antiqueness for you when you visit. The rooms are all on the second floor and the guest share an community bathroom. Each room is sponsored by a local business or individual and the room is name after them.

Besides being just a hotel they also have a bar in the basement called the Czech Cellar and in the back you can discover an big fenced off peaceful patio which occasionally hosts a local farmer’s market, a beer garden during Czech Days and other occasions.

This is a long time standing hotel and it continues to grow in success, so whether you need a quiet place to sleep or just passing by for something eat and drink; I recommend you take the time to discover the history of this unique hotel that has been my childhood favorite.

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The Old Hastings Junior High School

When I was in Hastings this past weekend I met a guy by the name of Marvin Hughes aka Butch.  Butch has turned the old Hastings Junior High School building into a business building for locals with small businesses.  Currently there are 12 different businesses and each owner is designated an area of the building to sell their products/services.  Some use old classrooms, the old band room and even the cafeteria. 

Some of the businesses include:

Simply Door Art by Nancy Parr.  Simply Door Art sells creatively decorated designs to hang on your front door at home.  You can check out some of her designs on her website: www.simplydoorart.com.

Form the Heart Creations, LLC by Deborah Brooks.  From The Heart Creations sells handmade jewelry and gifts.  Check out her website at www.heartcreations.com.

Woodland Archery.  Services that are provided: custom arrow building, complete set-up and tuning, custom bow strings by Winners Choice and Octane, Life-time tuning on all new bows sold by Woodland Archery, Professional and experienced service.  Visit their website at: www.woodland-archery.com.

Portraits by Kerry.  Photography studio for all those family and senior year portraits.  Her website is: www.portraitsbykerry.com.

If you want to get into fitness and working out the building also has Curves and Zumba available offered by two different owners. 

There are a couple other businesses such as a pottery and paintings that are made by two locals.

If you are ever in Hastings, I recommend you check out the old junior high building on 5th and Lincoln to see all the locals that working hard to provide services and goods to the best of Nebraskans and visitors.

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Hastings AquaCourt

Yesterday I spent the day in Hastings, Nebraska. The Hastings Aquacourt is one of the places on the Nebraska Passport. This place is amazing and I wish Lincoln had a fun water park like this one. They have a lazy river, that I floated on about 10 times around. It was extremely relaxing. They also have 4 different slides, I only went down the yellow slide. The best part that I like about all water parks is when they have a wave pool and the Aquacourt has one! It’s not as big as the one at Mahoney, but the waves were just as enjoyable.

This is a great place to bring the whole entire family for a day or just to come hang out with your best friends for a few hours. It is definitely worth driving a few hours to Hastings just to go swimming!

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