World's Largest Ball of Stamps

Instead of taking the much faster (though more boring) interstate highways back to Minnesota from Kansas, we took a bit of a detour, heading north into Nebraska and then over into Iowa. This allowed for two silly Anna things... First, I got to check off Nebraska as a state I have visited - 18 down (plus D.C.), 32 to go - (and unless the Western side is a heckuva lot more interesting or future road-tripping requires driving through it, one visit was enough). Secondly, I got to go to the world's largest ball of stamps.

I have kind of an affinity for stamps. They're little and delicate (especially the old ones), are usually pretty or at least look interesting, and are most often from some place far away. I love them! This would be why I have a table covered with them and make earrings out of them. Anyway, so we needed a place to stop and wander around and the ball of stamps just happened to line up with my route. (It's amazing how things will "line up" for you when you make lengthy detours.)

The ball of stamps resides in the Leon Myers Stamp Center which is actually just kind of a back room of the Boys Town Visitors Center in Boys Town, Nebraska. There's the large 600 pound ball, the wall mural of stamps, some stamp history, and stamps for sale for a penny all the way up to about $100 for serious collectors. We took pictures, looked at stamps (naturally) and bought a few new ones from the penny bins.

Cecelia even found a stamp from Argentina on the ball so we had to take a picture. The cool thing about a ball, or table as we've discovered, covered in stamps is that it makes for a great I-Spy game so the girls had a blast and got to stretch their legs. Yay for weird stuff to look at...