50th Anniversary Trip, Day 3 - Shopping, Eating and Remembering

Today our first priority was to replace the non-working camera and find the Camping World in Council Bluffs to purchase a new latch on the screen door in our motorhome.  Replaced the camera but could not find a latch.  The screen doors works fine except the latch that holds it to the main door is broken.  It is more annoying than anything else.  The screen door and camper door have to be opened separately now.  I am probably going to have to order the part on line so for now we will have to be annoyed.

We finally got parked at the Old Market in Omaha around noon.  We were hungry so we ate lunch at the Spaghetti Works.  It was very good.

After we had our meal, I asked our waiter if he would take our picture and he graciously did.  This is the way we look one day   before  our 50th wedding anniversary.

This store had collections of Pez, old record albums and nearly every kind of candy you could imagine.  There were antiques scattered among the collections.   It was interesting to walk through.

Mike and Sully were outside a movie theater where you could see old movies.  This was inside the store.

Some of the streets in the Old Market were paved with the original bricks from when the streets of Omaha were first laid.  The Old Market was originally made up of produce markets and warehouses.  When we lived here in the late 60's,  most of the buildings no longer housed anything and it was not a safe place to even drive through.  The area has been revitalized with restaurants and shops most of which are in the old warehouses.  

Dessert was home made ice cream from Ted and Wally's.
This building was probably an old gas station  or auto repair shop.

We drove by the church in which we were married 50 years ago.  It looks pretty much the same except for a few minor cosmetic changes.  They have build a Family Life Center on the east side and across the street from the church building.  I have looked at their web site and know that they have done major changes to the interior.  Looking forward to being in the sanctuary tomorrow.  Fifty years ago today, we picked up the flowers for the wedding and the rest of our family arrived for the big event tomorrow.  Attendees would be my mom and dad and sister Betty, Carol's parents, brother, Lindell, and brother Don and his wife Peggy.  It was a small group in which to observe a wedding of a pair of naive 19 and 21 year old kids; however, unless we get a divorce before tomorrow at 2:00 p.m., a marriage that lasted 50 years.

When we left Decatur Thursday, Jason texted us that someone was interested in the truck that pulled our trailer.  We have been trying to sell it since June.  Today, after some negotiation, we did sell it.  We are very excited to no longer have the truck.  For a while until we replace the truck we are down to one vehicle.  It has been 40 years since that has happened.

We got back to camp around 4:00. I has been a beautiful day and the evening was perfect.  We sat outside with Sandy and just enjoyed being able to relax and enjoy the beauty and activities around us.  The picture below was taken about 7:45 from our site.  A great sight with which to end our day.