Eye Essentials

  Find gallons of fun at Fun-Plex in Omaha, the largest water and ride park in the state of Nebraska. Hold on to your heart as you tumble down five-story waterslides, avoid motion sickness at Motion Ocean and float on the Lazy River. Slip and slide your way to a wet and wild adventure! Spend the day with family enjoying arcade style games, gravity defying rides and a fun time. There is something for everyone at Fun Plex.

Celebrate the love of art at the Omaha Summer Arts Festival. This artsy festival turns the streets of downtown Omaha into the largest open air art gallery showcasing 135 of the nation's finest artistic works. Mingle with an artist, eat at a sidewalk cafe, listen to live music and buy lots of art!

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.