friday morning we dropped the boys off at school and then hit the road. we spent 2 days in kansas city, they spend 2 days being spoiled by their grandparents. we left with no real plan. we had a list of restaurants from dawn, and a list of art museums to visit, and that was it.
on the drive down, i decided that i was going to find some thrift / antique stores. i did a lot of googling when i actually had good phone coverage (there's a lot of edge network between omaha and kansas city). i found a few that looked good, but only one was open while we were in town. but that one, the river market antique mall, was AWESOME. 4 stories of awesome. and odd. and what the heck. and more awesome. i would have happily bought EVERYTHING in the booth where we got the metal drawers below. there was an old lab table, maps, a super cool old school desk, a totally impractical lab stool. bliss.
1) sign bolted to the floor 2) drawers that would have come home w/ me if i could have thought of anywhere they could live 3) sign letters 4) brownie camera 5) GORGEOUS wood piece. HUGE. $462. still at the store 6) some of our treasures 7) old ampersand stamp 8) drawers. the middle set is now on my floor - soon to be rearranged into my space) 9) median sign for the bigs' room
we waited 45min in line at 3pm at oklahoma joe's. and just as dawn promised - TOTALLY worth it.
we wandered the aisles of propspero's books - totally prekids US.
we visited the nelson atkins museum. beautiful building, beautiful art.
we wandered around the plaza and did a little shopping (someone had gift cards + a birthday discount, after all).
we picked up cupcakes to take home to the boys.
we didn't have to remind anyone to be quiet in the hotel halls. and no one woke us up at 6:30. or earlier. all in all - an awesome trip. =)
happy tuesday! after a couple of weeks of sunshine + warm, we've got rain rain rain for spring break. honestly, i can't recall a spring break that WASN'T rainy. i guess we're in for a fair amount of popcorn + movies, video games and legos.
