Last Post of 2024: Holy Family Shrine and Des Moines

 

This morning Travalon and I woke up at 8:30, since we were still on Mountain Time. We drove and drove, passing by the water tower in York that looks like a hot air balloon.

We stopped at a rest stop somewhere west of Lincoln with a bridge over the Big Blue River. (Yes, we did cross it.)

West of Omaha we had runzas at a Runza, then we went to the Holy Family Shrine. This is inside the visitor center.

This is inside the shrine.

I loved their Stations of the Cross.

Here is the outside of the shrine.

I bought a couple of rosaries - photos soon! 

You can see we are back in winter weather.

And we also saw this truck that seemed to have stolen its logo from Harley Davidson and added a palm tree.

Now we are in Des Moines, and we took a walk to enjoy the Christmas lights.

We passed a Lebanese restaurant called Open Sesame, where I had an amazing date and rose drink and a vegetarian sampler plate with hummus, baba ghanouj, falafel, and grape leaves. Travalon said his gyro meat was the best he'd ever had. They had a beautiful bar and ceiling.

We are hoping to go to a swanky party in our swanky hotel, so I'll let everyone know how that went tomorrow. I will also post more photos from today that Travalon took - no time tonight before the party. So something to look forward to in 2025.

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