Hello, Neighbors!

A group of Iowa MINIs will be in Omaha on October 6. It would be fun to meet some of our Cornhusker friends. The Omaha leg of our trip will be:

Meet up will be at the Heartland of America Park and Fountain, downtown around 5 PM. We'll enjoy taking photos, sharing stories, and relaxing. Dinner will be at the Spaghetti Works around 7 PM in the old market area. On Sunday we're planning breakfast at the Cracker Barrel in Omaha at 9:30 AM, followed by a drive through the “Wildlife Safari”.

We'd like to meet any of you who can stop by!

 

Holllllly Cow. That would be 3 weekends in a row in Omaha. Well, I will see what I can do about making an appearance.

 

my girlfriends from Iowa

 

Yes! Please! Make an appearance and bring your MINI friends.

 

...wouldn't it just be easier if you lived in Omaha?

 

I should be able to come up for this

 

Good! We're eager to meet new MINI friends.

 

How many from Iowa are comming?

 

We never know for sure until the last minute, but we're expecting about 9 to make the trip.

 

Sweet I am going to try to be there, but they may have me working so i dont know yet

 

I'll definitely try to be out there. After all, it would be my first MINI Meeting, but we'll see. If not Sat, then I'll try to make it Sun.

 

Not sure if I can make it on Saturday but should be there on Sunday to meet everyone.

 

I'm glad we'll see some of you! The breakfast location on Sunday is
The Cracker Barrel just off I-80, 13 miles west of Downtown.
9409 S. 142nd St (402) 891-8665 Exit 440

Please contact me if you need more details.

 

If I can make it on Saturday, I'm assuming you will be in the main parking area of the Heartland of America park (north side entrance off of road going to Lewis and Clark Landing)? Is that correct?

 

We're meeting in the parking lot off Riverside Dr., which I think is the location you mentioned. We're taking the scenic route from Des Moines and meeting the MINIs who left on Friday, so we expect to be there around 5 on Saturday. We don't go to dinner until 7, so we should be there for awhile. Hope to see you.

 

I haven't been through the safari park in years. If I can make it, there won't be monkeys jumping on my MINI or something weird like that, will there?

 

I'm coming up to Lincoln for a family visit -- so would an old guy from Kansas be welcome for Sunday breakfast? -- I've never joined in a group activity before -- sounds like fun......

 

I just thought of something: I have a hasing event Saturday afternoon that will last most of the day, but the great thing is, it's also out at the Lewis and Clark Landing, and there'll be a chili cookoff, so this might be a double-whammy for me, which would be ideal.

If that's the case, I hope to see some of you out there.

- Sylens

 

About old guys and monkeys: Old guys from Kansas are very welcome! Monkeys jumping on MINIs are not.

 

It's official I will be in Omaha tomorrow and Sunday. Did not want to post until I was certain

-RoadGuy54
Consider yourself welcome from the Kernel of CORN. I am sure the rest of the CORN nuts will welcome a Kansas MINI.

See everyone tomorrow.
Just a check how many CORN folks will be meeting the Iowa folks?
Here is what I think we have thus far
Zyamfier
Sylens
Kasey
JMike
JPolson
Rvan220
Rosmakloma
Thats 7 total so far

 

Well, the weather for tomorrow shows "periods of showers and thunderstorms", but let's not let that stop us from getting together. Although it's been a few years since I've been through the Wildlife Safari - I do remember that it's not exactly paved. So if we do have some rain early tomorrow, after breakfast Jim had the idea of taking the same exit and checking out the SAC museum.

Hope to see more of you tomorrow morning - with all of the Iowa MINI's, we will put on quite a show just parking together.

 

What time is everyone meeting for breakfast?

 

Sorry I couldn't make it tonight. I took my RX-7 out for a spin and brokedown and since I really don't know anyone here yet and my wife was at the concert downtown, I didn't have anyone to call. I had to hoof it home and get my trusty Mini. I did actually make it downtown around 7:20 but everything was so packed I didn't know where to look. Hopefully the wife will let me meet you guys for breakfast. Hope to see you there.

 

...breakfast is at the Cracker Barrel in Omaha at 9:30 AM

 

Added three shots from breakfast to my gallery.

It was really great meeting everyone!