We went to a place called Voodoo Donuts. It seems to have a cult following that I have heard about through friends and seen on multiple TV shows. We stayed just a few blocks east of the bridge so when we found our selves on the other side, I was curious of an extremely large line. Walking around the building, following the line of people we found it was Voodoo Donuts but due to the large line, we decided to pass it up for the time being. After checking out some record shops, multiple coffee shops and a book store, we headed back towards the bridge to walk home. The line for the donut place grew and we decided to give up. After arriving back at the hotel room, we looked up some things to do on the computer and found out that their are multiple locations (one being right near where we were). We immediately walked over and luckily the line looked like it was still contained in the actual store but the surrounding of the building looking quite lonely compared to the west side, downtown location. Waiting 20 minutes in line while worrying about if they took cards and what donuts we could not miss, we arrived to the cashier. She accepted our credit card and we ordered the "voodoo dozen." And no it wasn't a dozen... it was 13. This worked out because we could not choose what we ordered but instead the lady decided what to included. Even the simple donuts were amazing but the captain crunch donut, the arnold palmer (sprinkled with iced tea mix) and the triple chocolate (chocolate donut, icing and coco puffs) were out of this world.
the next morning we, sadly, had to leave our new, wannabe home and headed out to Jackson, WY to stay with my old roommate Amanda. The drive wasn't to bad but we did have oregon-withdraw-sickness. We arrived and within minutes of calling Amanda she had planned to go kayaking with some of her friends. I forget the girls name but she worked at the boating company so we didn't have to pay a thing. She was super nice to us the entire time and we are extremely grateful to her. We were skeptical of boating considering neither of us were necessarily confident in water sports (since we haven't been exposed to a ton of it). We quickly realized it was not the time to question trying something new since we are on a 8 week wondering of the country trip. When it came down to it, we had a blast. It was amazing. We saw a golden eagle with what must of been a 5 foot wing span fly along the water in front of us. We twisted and turned in the natural current (that by the way was a really easy going river) and just had a great time.
the next day we eat thai food. We were surrounded by people who had lived in Thailand on study abroad and they all swore we had to eat their. They say that that is the closest thing they have ever had to the real thing (and that included NY). we arrived to a pretty expensive menu (which i dont believe is very authentically thai) but just ordered soups and appetizers. They were fantastic though. The flavors were simple but complex. My broth was quite spicy but found the sour of the lime and the natural sweetness of some of the veggies evened out the heat. The shrimp was cooked in the broth and blah blah blah I just decided that I dont have to get too in depth with my description. It was fantastic.
we drove through nebraska which is now voted, in my book, as the most boring state in the country. I probably see more people in red bank while walking down the street than our entire 9 hours of driving.
Now we are in Omaha NE and it really isn't much of a visiting city. We walked around one section of the city that we were told would be a good place to walk around but it was only 3 block long! the rest of the city doesn't really have store fronts. We did sit in a nice park for a while and are now retired to bed in hopes we can wake up at 5am to get early continental breakfast and hit the road to ohio. Home is, by the way, only 2 night away. We are happy and sad and relived and scared out of our wits to take up a real life and get a job. Hopefully the photographs I took will be worth the while and if not, it was a better experience than I could of hoped for, so really, screw the photos if I have too. The trip was about the experience!