Our 12-Day Vacation! First half: Nebraska

We just got back last Sat from our 12 day vacation we have been looking forward too! Every year we go out to Nebraska for the 4th of July and then later we usually go on a summer trip with my family, well this year they fell one right after another! It was a blast!

First we flew out to Nebraska- in the smallest plane I have ever been in and we landed at the smallest airport ever! (I tried to snap a picture but I was shoo'ed inside) We spent 6 days just relaxing and playing in the lake that is in Mike's parents backyard. It was like bath water and the have a water trampoline so it was SO fun! Then along came the 4th of July and man its CRAZY! We go over to Mike's cousin Dallas' house- now in Nebraska everything is pretty much legal as far as fireworks go- so in Dallas' whole neighborhood all the streets are blocked off for the show. Every single house on his entire street had people over and were lighting massive fireworks!! I wish I had had a video camera, it was AWESOME chaos. So we had a show in the front yard for about an hour, then we moved our chairs to the back and watched the display put on by the park just behind his house. And no- it wasn't over yet. . . everyone went back out front for another hour of fireworks! I have never seen that many fireworks EVER! But i have to say it was spectacular!! So then Sunday came and me and Mike flew straight to San Diego to meet my family. Lets just say that was the worst flight ever! We flew into Dallas and were supposed to only have an hour and half layover- we'd leave Dallas around 8:oo pm and get into California about 10ish- but no, it got delayed 5 hours!! We didn't reach California til after 2:30 am. Wow we were so tired. My poor dad had to stay up and come pick us up!