I'm a young granny, Madam, makes me feel old! The zoo here is pretty good. I love the shark tunnel in the aquarium the best. The new primates exhibit isn't bad either. I'm originally from Oregon and am partial to the Washington Park Zoo in Portland, but the Henry Doorly Zoo is pretty nifty as well.
As you probably know, Omaha boasts of having 150+ millionaires living here. That is probably why they have so many golf courses. I'm not a golfer, minature or otherwise. If I'm going after a small white target, I'd rather use a shotgun or a .45 instead of a 'stick'. But the shotguns tend to leave bigger divets!
I'm sure you're going to be constantly surprised at what you find in Omaha, and in Nebraska.
Another thing that confuses me--besides the negative connotations with "cowboys," in the failing eyesight of the old men of Old Europe--is this notion that "red states" are more ignorant than "blue states."
Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska have the highest literacy rates in the United States; next to them, places such as Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland, &c., &c., &c., look as if third-world countries.
I live out on the prairies, and so there are not many people living near me. But when I look at the area, for two miles on all directions, and examine the "neighbors" (all of them farmers; no cowboys in this part of Nebraska, other than myself)--well, I see that one of them is a graduate of Harvard, 1988; another is a graduate of Stanford, 1974; a third is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, 1981; a fourth is a graduate of Columbia, class of 1992; the fifth, well, he got a girl into trouble in high school, and so went to work right away, rather than going to college.
These are farmers, who during the height of summer boast red necks.