Thought #1 Staycation in Kansas City
I know I am starting to sound like a travel blog with all my posts about Kansas City. This is, however, where I currently reside after moving hither and yon for the last forty years. Over the long Labor Day weekend we stayed in town and had a KC vacation.
Kansas City is known for a lot of different things. Usually out-of-towners bring up the barbecue (KC style not to be confused with Texas style). There is a history of jazz and blues which is still visible in the area of town around 18th and Vine. While New Orleans is considered the birthplace of jazz, it is said that it grew up in KC when in 1929 Count Basie signed on with Benie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra.
As one of the inhabitants of KC, I will tell you one of the prettiest areas of town is the area around the Country Club Plaza. This area was the first shopping center that was created to allow for people to come by automobile. JC Nichols started acquiring the land for the Plaza in 1907. The construction started in 1922 patterned after the architechture of Seville, Spain. The 55 acre Plaza houses retail stores, offices, apartments, condos, churches, entertainment venues and upper scale houses.
We decided to stay in town over the Labor Day weekend. As you know we went to the KC Zoo on Thursday and on Friday checked into the Raphael Hotel on the Country Club Plaza. (Note: Grandboys weren't invited on this part of the vacation)
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| Going in...later there was a string quartet set up here playing music. |
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| The Lobby |
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| There were flowers waiting for us in our suite. Very nice!!! |
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| Our room overlooked the Plaza |
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| Walking out of the hotel over to the shops/restaurants |
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| I just thought she was cute. |
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| The JC Nichols Fountain |
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| Leaving the fountain, heading for the restaurant |
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| Do you notice that I am usually lollygagging behind Mr. Longlegs |
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| McCormick and Schmicks restaurant |
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| This is the way up to the restaurant |
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| Heading back to the hotel |
Thought #2 Who said it wouldn't last?
Forty years ago on September 4th 1971, two teenagers decided to get married. Not spur of the moment or anything as they got engaged a year and a half before that. Still it took parents to sign papers as teens need permission to get married if you were under the age of twenty-one.
Yes, husband and I got engaged while he was in the Army and I was still in high school. A year and half later we got married. Two and a half years after that we could legally drink.
Happy 40th Anniversary to US!!!
The Good for the Day....Proved all the nay sayers wrong. We are still going strong.
The Bad for the Day...Husband's mom signed for us to get married but is no longer around to appreciate that we are still together.
The Weird for the Day....After we were married a couple of years and I was approaching 21...it was not so very far off.... but not there yet. We got kicked out of a bar. I wasn't even drinking as we were expecting our first baby, but still I got carded and ousted.
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