Tornadoes, Floods, and the Zoo :)

I've been waiting to write until I could show the video of when we drove through a "Road Under Water"...however, for some reason the clarity of the video is really bad when we open it up in our movie editing program, SO, I will just have to tell you about it even though it won't have the same effect!



Tornadoes: The Wednesday before Lindsay's wedding, we were trying to get to Forest City for the night. On our way, the weather looked pretty bad, but we decided to just try to get there as soon as possible. We drove through gray clouds the entire way and when we got to a town an hour from our house, all of a sudden the tornado sirens went off!! Instead of stopping and waiting it out, we decided to drive as fast as we could and beat it...well, we beat that one but we were in the middle of two-three storms our entire way. It was scary but we finally made it there safely



Floods: People have been asking us if we're experiencing flooding. The answer is "no" of which we are very thankful! However, on Thursday as we were driving the rest of the way to get to the wedding, we saw a sign that said, "Road Under Water". Assuming they would detour us off, we continued on the road. Suddenly, we came to a completely submerged road and were forced to drive through it. We had our video camera along, so we videoed the whole thing.....I cannot even begin to explain the scariness and extent of this flooding. It was the longest 3 minutes of my life, that's for sure! We came through though, and have some crazy video footage of this awful flood! Note to self for next time: Never, EVER continue on a road when it says, "Road Under Water"!!

Zoo!!: Yesterday we enjoyed a day at the Omaha Zoo. It was soooo fun!!

We started out in the desert!

Then we headed over to the giant aquarium...wow! It was cool.

Then we took a little train and fed some birds.

And headed to their new butterfly exhibit.

And ended the day walking through the jungle! What a fun day!