Kansas City

 Children's play area at the independence visitor center.

 Outside Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead.

 This restaurant was so much fun. You sit in your booth and pick up the phone and order your food. Then  train that goes around the top of the restaurant carries your food to you and drops it onto a tray that then lowers down to your table with your food on it. The kids thought it was great, so did me and Blake.(unfortunately Broden slept through most of it.)

 Broden and Blake at the game! We went to watch Billy Butler. He played for the minor league team in Idaho the first summer we were married. He ended up marrying a girl from Blake's home ward in Idaho, so we like to pretend we "know" him:) It was fun going to see him play in the major leagues.

 The fountain was died green for the Irish Festival they were having this weekend.

 All of us at the game.

 At the Independence visitor center.

 In front of Liberty Jail.

 

Alissa with her new friend!

Over Labor Day weekend we took a trip to Kansas City to see some sights and visit some of our friends who moved there from Cleveland. It was a fun packed few days. We went to a farm place that had so much to do. It had a petting zoo, places to feed goats and other animals, a cow milking demo, horses, cows, fish feeding, a few playgrounds, a place to "pan for gold" and lots of educational stuff. We also went to a baseball game, ate a really fun restaurant, and went to see some church sites.

One thing I didn't take pictures of, that I wish I had was our hotel. We stayed with our friends the first night and wanted to stay in a hotel the second night so the kids could swim. We get cheap hotels through Blake's brother and have had really good luck with that. We looked online and picked a hotel that looked really nice. It was next to a lake with a walking path, had and indoor/outdoor pool, continental breakfast, and looked really nice in the pictures. When we pulled up it was SO rundown. It was dark so we couldn't see much, but the parking lot was almost empty, and there weren't any lights outside. I thought maybe it was better inside. Blake went inside to check in, making sure I locked the doors when he got out. He came out and said it wasn't much better inside. So we went up to our room and everyone got their swimming suits on. We headed down to the pool and it was so run down. The ceiling and "garage door" that was over the pool separating it from outside was all rusty. The pool was FREEZING. We didn't even get in because it was so cold. So we headed back to our room. In the morning we went down to the breakfast. It was in a huge room that used to be a really nice restaurant, but now they just use it for the breakfast. I couldn't believe how run down everything was. When we looked out our hotel room window we overlooked a courtyard and there was a watermelon someone had thrown from someplace up high, because it was everywhere. From the edge of the pool all the way across the grass to the sidewalks. We could also see the lake and could almost see the sidewalk through all the grass that was covering it. Needless to say we didn't stay another night. We opted to stay with our friends.

Saturday and Sunday we went to Liberty Jail and Independence. We love going to the church history sites and our kids are almost old enough to listen (Remi and Broden at least). Then before leaving we had some yummy Cafe' Rio burritos at our friends' cousins' house:) It was delicious and a great way to end a fun weekend! Thanks Jana and Avery.