We are back at home-sweet-home...by 10:00 p.m. This morning we slept late, then headed out for Fritz's for breakfast (the restaurant with the train that runs along the ceiling and delivers your food). But then we realized that they didn't open until 10:30, and that they were in an area where we'd have to pay to park, etc. - so we headed for McDonald's instead. :) Then we went to the WWI Museum - Liberty Memorial Museum, which was amazing. It was really informative, but the best part for me was the small personal belongings of soldiers that made me feel like I kind of knew some of them - it was very emotional in some parts. I think that every high school student should go through that museum. I'm sure that I learned some of that information before...
We went to the top of Liberty Tower, which is an elevator ride up 214 feet, and then a climb of 45 steps. The viewing tower had a tall wall, about as tall as Lauren. Lauren was really nervous about going up, but was okay once we were up there. The view was AMAZING - we could see way beyond the city limits, and I got some amazing pictures. The downtown skyline was beautiful.
After the museum, we went to an Italian diner called Bella Napoli's for lunch. I'd read online that it was a great authentic neighborhood deli. What I didn't realize was that everything was going to be in Italian. So it was kind of an experience... They have three doors, but you can only walk in the middle one, which opens into a deli/meat & cheese counter, with a big board behind it with Italian writing. It opened into one side that had booths and another side that was a coffee bar. We had wonderful, wonderful food - Lauren had an Americano sandwich (fresh deli meat and homemade rolls), and Stuart and I had pasta. I had a meatball panini and it was YUM! However, I couldn't even finish half of it, and Stuart and I both had rigatoni, too. We'll be going back the next time we're in KC - there were about 15 more things that I want to try.
After we ate, we went to the Miniatures Museum, but the docent told us that they closed in 30 minutes. So we drove by the Nelson Adkins Museum, and then headed out to Cabella's. We could spend an unreasonable amount of time browsing around in Cabella's. The best part, for me, was watching Lauren play a target shooting game upstairs and SHE ROCKED! I had no idea she was so good at that - it was amazing to watch her really excel at something unexpected!
Stuart just turned the television on, and the show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" is on. I'd forgotten how much I love this show! It used to be my favorite television show!
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