Bank of the West

From first-class miniature golf to a challenging climbing wall, Boulder Creek Amusement Park makes for family friendly fun. The park even features batting cages where skills can be honed and challenges made. If you're hungry after a long day of play, then visit the Coney Stop, where you can enjoy classic coneys, great sandwiches and cool drinks.

Check out one very hot treasure at Hot Shops Art Center in Omaha, where the molten nature of the artists that work at the warehouse gallery give it its "hot name". See the workshops of Bruning Sculpture, Hot Shops Pottery and Crystal Forge. Leave awed by what you see and inspired by your newest piece of original art work in hand.