Kansas City Vacation

We took a mini vacation to Kansas City the first week of June and had a great time! We stayed with Ross' parents and hung out with them on our vacation. We went to the Kansas City Zoo, which was such a nice zoo! We saw penguins, stingrays, cheetahs, and even took a boat ride and tram ride. We rode the carousel, too, which might have been my favorite. ;) It was such a nice zoo and a pretty good weather day for it, which made it even better.

After the zoo Gramma and Grampa treated us to Tropical Snow (snow cones) which were a big hit with everyone. They were yummy and quite refreshing after being outside all day.

Tuesday we went to Hallmark Crown Center to a place called Kaleidoscopes. It was a craft place for kids to make all sorts of different crafts. The girls each got to decorate their own puzzle and even cut it out into puzzle pieces themselves. Lucy had a great time and Molly would have had a great time had she not been so tired. :) Larry retired from Hallmark some years back and still has lots of perks for being a retiree. Hallmark has a Double Discount store for employees where Hallmark items are marked 75% off. I've been to this store once before quite a few years ago and we got to go again after Kaleidoscopes. It was great! I got a great deal on some note cards and wrapping paper.

After that we ate lunch at Fritz's in Crown Center. It's a hamburger joint where you phone in your order and then your food is delivered via train. You can watch a video of our delivery here. It was a fun experience, but I can't say the food was that great. After Fritz's we walked around Union Station and then Gramma and Grampa treated us to ice cream. The ice cream was so good and made up for the not so good lunch. Hahaha!

Wednesday morning we strolled around the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum and then headed home that afternoon. On our way home we stopped at the Osceola Cheese Factory and had fun sampling some different kinds of cheese!

We rounded out the rest of Ross' vacation week with a movie on Thursday morning. One of the movie theaters in town has a special summer movie series for kids and we saw Trolls. It was a fun movie and Molly's very first time to go to a movie theater. Friday was National Donut Day, so we celebrated with free donuts at Krispy Kreme!

All in all it was a great vacation! Very much proof that you don't have to go super far away or spend a lot of money to have a good time! Thanks to Gramma and Grampa Wiseman for the hospitality!

A Hallmark Double Discount store treat for the girls and a coffee treat for the Grampa!

Playing Bat and Ball with Grampa!

Looking at pretty art with Gramma.

Family portrait in front of the sculpture. Molly wasn't so much into it.