Travelin' with the Foster Four: Rounding third and headed home...

After our sunrise in the Badlands we kept going east and made it to Mitchell, SD - home of the World's Only Corn Palace. Really? Would the world even need two of these?

Then we made it all the way to Omaha - home of the World's Only Camden Foster. Well, it isn't my home but I was born there. We stayed with our friends the Stoller family that we were friends with in Texas but now they live in Omaha.

We went to the zoo together on Saturday. It was the coolest zoo I have ever been to. Alison fed live crickets to the spitting fish...

We walked across a swinging bridge in the jungle...

We got to swing on vines in the jungle too...

Then we ran the bases at a little park in the zoo parking lot. It is leftover from the old stadium where they used to play the college world series.

Then we went to the Humane Society to take a picture with the brick that our friends Tim and Judy had bought in memory of Millie...

We stayed in Omaha until after church on Sunday. We went out to the Friesen's hobby farm for brunch before leaving Omaha and heading toward Kansas City and then St. Louis.

On the way mom had planned a surprise for Alison. We stopped in O'Fallon, MO to meet Alison's American Heritage Girls penpal. Alison and Kaitlyn have been writing each other all year and it was cool for them to meet. We had a Chick-fil-A picnic and played at the park.

We went to the arch in St. Louis. The museum and the trip up the arch were fabulous. The arch is a lot taller than I thought it was and the elevator system was pretty impressive.

The view from the top was breathtaking. We could even see our seat's for that nights baseball game!

It was cool to see the shadow of the arch waaaayyyy down below.

That evening we went to a Cardinals game. They won when they hit a walk off home run in the 9th inning. It was a good game to watch. Alison and I got on the giant tv.

The next day we left St. Louis and headed to Louisville, KY. Our first stop was the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory. I got to hold a bat that was used in a game by my hero Cal Ripken. Dad got to hold it too...we were both pretty excited about it.

Dad and I looked at everything. Alison and mom not so much.

After the baseball museum we went to a park. They had an area dedicated to my other hero, Abraham Lincoln.

Then we went to a brewery for dinner. Mom had a hard time deciding on a drink so they brought her some of all of them. I wish that's how it worked at the ice cream store.

Ant Man was on in the restaurant. Alison and I haven't gotten to watch too much tv this summer so we were pretty hooked on this.

The next day mom said we had to suck it up and go to all of the distilleries but it wasn't too hard. I learned a lot and found out that making bourbon and even making beer is mostly chemistry. Mom said if I got a degree in chemistry and used it to make good bourbon she would pay for every last bit of my education.

This is a picture of the barrel roller coaster. I was too tall for the ride so I couldn't make it a human roller coaster. It was used to roll the barrels from the filling area to the storage area. It was cool.

Then we left Louisville and went to Cincinnati, Ohio where we met Granna and Oma for a Reds game. It rained a bit during the game but it was never delayed. The stadium overlooked the river - it was a pretty view.