Dreams Do Come True

So, one of my lifelong dreams has been to go to Nebraska! Yes, Nebraska, the state. Well, after 28 years, it is becoming reality and I'm going!! YEY!!!
My agenda is as follows:
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - Mom, dad, and me drive to St. Louis and stay at Harrah's and hopefully I can win a million dollars
Thrusday, July 2, 2009 - we drive to Fremont, Nebraska, the town where my grandmother grew up
Friday-Sunday - celebrate
Sunday, July 5, 2009 - I fly back to Nashville and mom and dad start the drive back.

I am so stoked. We are going up for my great aunt's 90th birthday. So, it's like a mini family reunion with the side that I never see, or most likely never met.

Why my obsession with Nebraska you might ask? Well, it's where my grandmother, Grandma Vernon, grew up until she was 13. It's where my dad and his family always went on vacations and there has always been tons of Nebraska stories. I can only imagine, Grandma, Papaw, and their 5 youngins' making the drive to Nebraska, it had to be intersting. One day when I write my memior, I'll include some of these stories!!!

Also, why do I like Nebraska??? It's where mine and Angie's alter ego's are from!!!! Yes, when we don't want to give people our real names, we tell them we are Franchesca and Gwendolyn from Omaha!!! It has come in handy on multiple occasions, but never has it been as believable as it was at TJ's night before his wedding party.

On the LONG drive to Farview, we said we should tell people there we are Franchesca and Gwendolyn from Omaha and we work at Primus there, which TJ works in the one in Cool Springs, and we talk to him so much on the phone that we decided to load up our motorhome and drive down for his wedding. We decided to test his luck since his soon to be wife had her friends there that we did not know.

Well, lo and behold, would you know it, there as a motorhome parked down the street from TJ's condo, so not only did we tell them we were Gwendolyn and Franchesca from Omaha, but we also had a motorhome we could point out and tell them it was what we drove down here in!!! It was hilarious, they actually believed us, and unless someone told them different, they probably still do believe it. So, yes, I'm excited to go back and see Franchesca and Gwendolyn's old stomping ground!!!

Actually, I told my girly's the other day that we do not have Nebraska names, and we should change them. All of dad's girl cousins have double names, Theola May, Jo Elfin, Cora Lee, and Micky Sue. I called dibs on Theole May, but we came up with a new one for Heather, Tana Rose! I think she'd fit right in and more people would believe she is from Omaha!

So, I'm am pumped beyonds words to go to Nebraska, one more place I can mark off of my places to go. I'll fill you all in on how great it was when I get home.....hopefully I don't talk Nebraska up to much