Tuesday - Corn, corn and more corn

We woke up in our 1980s apartment a bit late as we slept through the alarm, not good when we had to get somewhere one hundred miles away before five!

Nothing much happened for the first fifty or so miles except us passing a lot of corn fields, standard boring Nebraska really. We stopped for lunch at another gas station that apparently served subs. The fun occured when you tried to order a simple sandwich as the lady made you fill in an order form for your sandwich, turned around and made it and then handed you back the form accompanied by your sandwich. You then had to take the form with the sandwich to another lady in order to pay for it. Pointless system really, made us laugh! Met some nice builders sporting some great hi-vi t-shirts, looked the business!

After another forty miles or so we arrived in the Lincoln, the capital city of Nebraska. Quite nice place really as there were actual people walking around and no corn in sight!

We then went to find dr jays daughter Alex at the cool building in which she worked for roundus (check out there stuff, pretty cool). After being introduced to everyone there and freshening up we went for a wander around Lincoln to take in some sightseeing. We visited Nebraska universities campus, watched the football and womens soccer team train and then went to the state Capitol building (tom thought we were going to the steak capital, he was disappointed!) to take in some architecture, lovely stuff.

After some much needed food we met another of the doctors kids, jered, at alexs office. Jered works as a manager for Nebraska uni American football team so was wearing all the gear and gave us some stats and history of the team. He then took us to an all you can eat buffet where we met his roomate jeff and ate more food again.

Found some random stuff here including fried ravioli and tea bags but no hot water. After a quick plate of proper food we all hit the dessert section hard with jack managing to eat his own bodyweight in sweet stuff.

All feeling quite sick we went to pick up our bikes from the roundus office and then cycled to jareds house where we would be crashing for the night. Turns out all of jareds house liked actual football and were playing FIFA so tom unleashed some football trivia on them all. Jared donated his room and a great air bed to our cause so we all had a great nights sleep but felt bad that we wernt able to experience a drunken student night out in America, guess we will have to come and visit again then!