Entrance to the Nebraska Capitol Building
We woke up to the morning temperature of 30 degrees, the high was 70 degrees in Lincoln Nebraska.
I crawled out of bed at 8:10 am. Larry let me sleep in because we weren't in any hurry. Today we were going to do more touristy stuff in Lincoln and they didn't open until 10:00 am. I got dressed and we started to put thing away. Then we had a quick breakfast. We wanted to be in Lincoln a little early to find a place to park the Minnie.
Lincoln was seven miles from Sandhills Global Event Center. Larry had programmed his GPS to go to one of the museums we were going to visit but roads were closed due to a special event going on. We drove around for bit. There were plenty of parking garages but the Minnie won't fit in the garage. We finally found a place to park the Minnie. It was on the street with a parking meter. We put enough quarters in for three hours ($3.00). We walked to the first stop, which was Sheldon Museum of Art on the university campus. We were almost there and Larry wasn't sure if he locked the back door of the Minnie. We walked the 1/2 mile back. He had locked it. Then he added another two quarters because we weren't sure how long we were going to be. We had three hours to be back. It was 10:30 so we had until 1:30.
We walked back to the Sheldon Museum of Art. It was a beautiful museum and very roomy. The museum was on two floors. The galleries we walked through were Americans Aboard, Collection Gallies of Rohman Family, Sarah Pearson Campbell, Woods Family and Henning Family. They had a lot of beautiful art and photography. The museum exhibits are nineteenth- twentieth century art and houses over 12,000 artworks. They have a sculpture garden. It was a free museum but donations are welcome. We gave them a donation. The lady, who welcomed us was very nice and explained how the museum is set up. We had a great self-guided tour of the Shelton Museum of Art.
The Country Agricultural Agent by Norman Rockwell 1947-48
Next stop was across the street, which was the Great Plains Museum. It was about the Great Plains art and is run by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 's Center for Great Plains Studies. It contains sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographs from John and Elizabeth Christlieb collection, which they donated. The exhibits are typically rotated several times per year and includes permanent collections, guest-curated exhibitions and traveling exhibits. It's a small museum but very nice. The exhibits aren't cramped together. Some of the works are by Albert Bierstadt, William Henry Jackson, Frederic Remington, Charles Marion Russell. Olaf, Lyman Byxbe, John Philip Falter, Michael Forsberg, Veryl Goodnight, Jackson Pollock, Norman Rockwell and Grant Wood. The exhibits are on display on two floors. We had a nice time looking at the exhibits.
The Chase and I'm Outta Here by Delmar Pettigrew 2007
After touring the Great Plains Art Museum we went to Panada Express to have lunch. We wanted to try out Blaze Pizza but the line was too long so we decided on Panada Express. We shared a bowl, which had fried rice and orange chicken. It was very good.
Our lunch
After lunch we walked to the Capitol Building. We didn't do a guided tour because we were getting short on time. We walked around the Capitol Building and saw a lot of beautiful paintings about the history of Nebraska. We saw the senate chamber but the house of representatives doors were locked. We walked up to the second floor and looked over the railing and got a very nice view of the whole building. We couldn't go up to the top of the dome because it was closed for construction. A lot of doors were locked so it didn't take long to walk around. We had a great time.
After walking around the Capitol Building we walked back to the Minnie, which was about a mile.
Once there Larry programmed our final destination, which was Tuxedo Park in Crete, Nebraska, about 30 miles away. The drive was a two lane highway. Before leaving Lincoln we stopped at Casey's and filled the Minnie with gas.
Tuxedo Park is a beautiful park with a creek, that runs along 10 of the RV sites. It has a great playground for the kids, big buildings to hold events, baseball fields, Go Kart track, a couple of bridges (one takes you to the baseball fields and the other one takes you to the Go Kart track. They have a bathroom and shower. It has an old Settler's Cabin.
Tuxedo Park use to be Nebraska Chautauqua, which brought culture and entertainment to rural America. In 1883, the Crete Chautauqua acquired this site and within a decade twenty buildings had been erected. It was the largest such assembly in the country and had up to 5,000 people camped here. Below is more information about it.
In the evening we had entertainment because the local high school was having their prom in one of the buildings. The girls were dressed in formals, that were long, short and mid-length. The boys were in tuxes. It was fun to watch them arrive.
I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2. I had trouble getting online to play the Daily Solitaire and Mahjong so I didn't play them. It was able to finally get online late in the evening so I only did 18 games out of the 20 games in the event, which was Event: Spider Adventure of 20 games. I played it for 2 hours, 16 minutes and 42 seconds, which put me in 11th place in my group.
By the end of the day I did 15,000 steps. LIFE IS GOOD!!!
