Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Kansas City

So these pictures ended up backwards but here is our Kansas City, Missouri portion of our trip.
As you can see, we ran the boys until they could not run another step.

This is Liberty Jail. What an amazing place to visit! Joseph Smith was so brave and faced so many challenges. I am so grateful fo his example of faithfulness.

This is the hamburger joint we ate lunch at. Yes, this blurry picture is of a train delivering our food to us. It was not the best food we have ever had by any means but oh the excitement of having trains regularly leaving the kitchen toting a basket of food.
Aren't those two of the cutest engineesrs you have ever seen?

At this great place called, Crown Center they had a big lego exhibit going on. We had fun looking at the scupltures and playing at the LEGO table.

All made from Legos! That is seroius skill!
There was a Crayola store in Crown Center mall! It was so bright, colorful , imganative, and hands on. They had various tables and easels with paper and markers or crayons you could use.
If you are ever in Kansas City, we recommend a place called Union Station. It is still a train station, but it has been transomformed to be a discovery museum as well. So cool! This is Joey driving a pretend old fahsioned fire truck.
Jon is being eaten?!

Trains of course!
Yes, that is me on a bike, on a high wire, and a load of bricks that helps with balance. I was the only one in our family that was the right size to ride this. It was awesome!
Teamwork from the whole family is how this arch was made but it only took Jon one attempt running full bore into the side to knock it down.
Peter of course loved the architecture of Union Station.

More trains, what is a boy to do!
Independence Visitor's Cetner: beautiful, peaceful, spiritual!

In the basement of the visitor's center there is a cute little kids pioneer cabin, wagon, etc set up. Our kids had a great time playing!
Wagons HO!

Jon and Sadie were so excited to see Jesus! They wanted to touch him and talk about him, you have to love the innocence and purity of children.
Waiting to board the plane in Las Vegas! The flight went so much better than I had expected or even hoped. Arabella slept and the boys were entertained with books and the inflight snack. Picking up our rental car was slick and easy also. Setting out on adventure!

2 comments:

Brady and Lindsay Wood said...

Sounds like your trip was a blast and the kidos look like they had fun also. I cant wait to see the rest of the pictures.

Kelsey Booth said...

I love the pics. We'll have to go visit there too!