MEA Break trip to KC {October 17-20, 2024}

Thursday morning, October 17th Oakley and I went for a run before being in the car all day. The moon was amazing in the morning! 

You can see Oakley's glow band: 

Then we drove the 7 hours south, he did good in the van. 

We stayed at a hotel then drove to see Kyle's parents on Friday. Coming back up to the hotel that evening and my mom came to stay for two nights for a family visit. Kids enjoyed the pool. 

Can't be in Kansas City without Minsky's or BBQ. 

Oakley loving the hotel life. 

Fountain on the Plaza

More pool time and girls taking selfies. 

 

Saturday we went to check out the Negro Baseball Museum. It was pretty cool. 

These are the feet that used to stand in the baseball park that Isaac played baseball at with League 42 in Wichita. Pretty crazy story and disappointing someone would vandalize the Jacking Robinson statue. 

Oakley enjoying a pup cup from our walk to Starbucks. 

Ice cream at Andy's another midwest favorite we miss. 

Shopping on the plaza before dinner. Picking up the kids some pants. 

Sunday we briefly hit the City Market for some coffee before heading back up north. 

 

Kansas City Trip MLK weekend

Saturday January 15th we dropped off Harpo at his "home away from home" aka Chisholm Creek Pet Resort. He pays a visit about once a month as we squeeze in these little vacay escapes when we have a long weekend. The kids were off school Monday for MLK, so this weekend we decided to head to Kansas City, a quick 2.5 hour drive away. Isaac has been reading through Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series (since then he's into the next series and all the books in between) and it has sparked his interest for greek mythology so we planned to hit the art museum on Sunday to check out any greek sculptures. 

Since the girls had their cheer performance on Friday evening we waited til Saturday. We did hit a bit of a snow storm, which slowed the trip. We got there about lunch time and headed into the city to explore the City Center (science Museum) while we passed time before meeting my cousin for dinner. 

 

We love this museum, we've been a few times since we can get in free with our Exploration place membership. Love that program that lets you get in to other science museums around the country. Totally worth it!

 

Captured all four in one frame playing so good together!

We left there and headed back south to meet up with my cousin and his husband that live in the city. I had hoped to see them more while we lived in Wichita, but covid put a wrench in traveling plans and getting together. After dinner we headed to check into our hotel. We were staying outside of the city because most things were booked up from the Chief's playoff game at Arrowhead stadium that weekend. 

Kids got a swim in

Sunday we had entry reservation at the Nelson Atikins Museum at 10am. 

We found the few greek mythology pieces they had. This piece was interesting.

We found a pizza/brunch place to have lunch. Kids got this HUGE pizza! 

We headed back south to Overland Park where our hotel was and found this museum called Prairie Fire. We'd never heard of it but decided to sneak it in before they closed at 3:00. It was pretty cool and had a big hands on area for the kids. What was really cool is that it put together two previous places we'd been. There was an astronaut's helmet from the Cosmosphere and a fossil from Charles Sternberg. 

We made it back to the hotel in time for a swim and to watch the game. Oh we had pasta for dinner just before the game started across the street from our hotel. 

The next morning Kyle took the kids to the pool so I could be on my BSF leadership zoom call from 9:30-11am. Once my call was completed we checked out and headed home. We needed to get back to get the kids to their swimming lesson at 4:30. Fun quick weekend away. 

Missouri Trip ~ Chiefs Game

 Saturday September 25th we took the drive over to Grandma's house. It's about 3.5 to 4 hours depending on the length of our stops, but it's not an easy straight shoot, it's twisty, windy, tiny roads. We dropped Harpo at the boarding resort on our way and headed north/east. 

Girls were loving this cat that kept coming around. Grandma doesn't have a cat, but this one sure was friendly. 

Some family football playing in the backyard. 

And a movie night. 

We stayed the night Saturday at Grandma's then the younger three spent the day with her and Grandpa, while Kyle, Isaac, and I went up to a Chief's game. 

Bright and early tailgating. We met up with my friend Brandi, her family, and some of her friends. 

 

Tailgating was the best part :-D, but time for the game so we headed inside. 

We didn't have seats together but we were only a section apart. We got to walk through the Chiefs Hall of Fame. 

And then time for the LOUD game! 

Sadly they lost but it was still fun. After the game we drove back to Clinton, picked up the kiddos and headed back to Wichita in an effort to make it home before bedtime since everyone had school and work the following day.