October 2007 Archives
Yeah...First the kid is off to Kindergarten and now she turned 6. Amazing how the time flies.
We had quite the birthday weekend. Last Thursday Taylor and her class got to go on a field trip to American Royal to watch them some rodeo. That night we checked into the Great Wolf Lodge and were off to dinner at Ted's Montana Grill. Dinner was not good - great service and good soup but the food in general was awful. I got the New Mexico Chicken and Jenn the Bison Meatloaf. Mine was pretty bland and wouldn't recommend it but Jenn's was worse...Terrible. Then to the lodge for some fun, if you remember, we went to the lodge last winter for Austin's birthday and it is freaking awesome. We played in the pool for a while before Jenn and I had to play a double header for our coed volleyball league.
After our memory walk we decided to check out Crown Center and Union Station to see what the kids might enjoy down there.
First we stopped by my work, I recently moved buildings to 2020 Baltimore in the Crossroads district. It is nice, kind of an older building with newer additions. I like it because, unlike at the downtown airport, I actually have a cube with a real desk. Believe me it is an upgrade.
After that quick stop we were off to Crown Center where we stopped to eat. My choice was the New York style pizza place D'Bronx but the kids had other ideas. D'Bronx is pretty good, probably as good a NY style pizza as you will find in KC. We ended up at the Crayola Cafe which is quite kid friendly (as you might imagine). The kids each got a balloon and a souvenir Crayon cup. The food was surprisingly pretty good.
Lunch wrapped up and we headed over to Union Station. Jenn bought our memberships while the kids and I check out the toy train track set up that will be displayed over the holidays. It is going to be pretty cool when it is all set up, they have all sorts of little towns that the trains go through.
From there we caught the Mars show in the planetarium. We made it about 15 minutes before I started falling asleep and also realized that the show was 45 minutes long. So we hit Science City which we all thought was very cool. We took a tour through the human body, played some music, played some mini golf and I rode the high rope bike(pretty freaky when you are pushing the weight limit and really question whether you won't tip over. Anyway, we tried to catch the Dinosaur movie but the projector was broken...oh well. Overall, we were pretty pleased with the trip but a little disappointed that we didn't get to see the movie.
A while ago Jenn and I decided that we would participate in some type of charity fundraiser at least one time a year. We had a number of different ideas of charities that we wanted to support based on various friends and family members experiences with various diseases. A few walks that we looked up conflicted with other things we were doing so we settled on the Memory Walk. As many of you know Jenn's stepmother, Jeanne, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease back in 1998. Though I didn't know her very well before this diagnoses, I did get to watch some of the things that a disease like this can do to a person and their family. Jeanne passed away two years ago and we felt it was a good charity to support in her honor.
We plan on giving it another go next year in hopes of raising more money for the cause. With that said, we enjoyed taking the kids on the walk with us and listening to different people talk about their Alzheimer's experiences.
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