Goin' to Kansas City

 Here we go...

 First time at a Chick-fil-A

Tasty food, huge walking cow, Christian music, AND a clean AND fun play area for the kids.  What a hit!

 After we checked in to our gigantic hotel, we headed over to Legoland!

 The miniature room was super cool with all kinds of displays.  They had the entire KC skyline, sports stadiums, & here they even had the spinning house, Munchkinland, & the Emerald City all from the Wizard of Oz.  Very impressive.

 Andrew was overwhelmed at the thought of having that many "Lego guys".

 We built this tower ourselves.  :)  There were tiny, medium, & big Legos EVERYWHERE to just build & build & build.  The most unique were cupcake Legos!

 Enjoyed the 3-D Lego movie complete with flashing lights, "snow", & "rain" on us while we watched to complete the experience.

 Andrew's favorite part was making vehicles to race down the ramps.

Rebecca just wanted a picture with everything cute!

 This ride at the end was pretty cool.  Rebecca was too scared to go, but that didn't stop Andrew

 or barely tall enough Teresa from enjoying it!

 For supper we went to Fritz's Railroad Cafe.

 The food was brought to the table by a model train that drove on a track around the restaurant dropping it's attached basket at the appropriate table.

 Then the tray lowered the food to the table to enjoy!  It was novel.

Before collapsing back at the hotel, we hit the free dinosaur exhibit. Pretty cool, especially for free!

 Rebecca's shirt was quite the mess!  Our room was on the 24th floor of the hotel.  After so much dry air-conditioned air & plummetting altitudes in the elevator, her nose was not happy.  She had 4 nosebleeds in 2 days!  Ah, the surprises are what makes it fun, right?

We enjoyed a little bit of Olympic soccer & then off to Dreamland.

Good night, Kansas City! 

T-Rex, roar!

Since both Andrew & Darren were home on President's Day, we decided to have an adventure! We drove out to the new Dinosaur Museum to see what all the talk was about. Rebecca was a little freaked out about 1 minute in the door asking if we could go home... but, she mostly got over it. Teresa didn't seem to mind!They had some pretty big skeletons there. Andrew has always liked dinosaurs but they all took a greater interest since Dinosaur Train has started on PBS. There were quite a few catchy dinosaur tunes being sung & references to *who* each dinosaur was: "That's a pteranodon like Shiny!" "Look a tyrannosaurus like Buddy!" "Is that the Conductor dinosaur?"And plenty of large life-like replicas as well. Notice how funny Andrew's standing... I think he's a little nervous it might eat him! One room had just the neck & heads of about 10 different dinosaurs on steel rods amid some foliage. Rebecca said,

"Uh-oh. I think some of those dinosaurs lost their legs!"They had quite the variety of land dinosaurs, swimming dinosaurs, & flying dinosaurs as well as many other animals that lived during their time periods. There were also replicas of cavemen skeletons, saber tooth tigers, AND to show how molds are made they even had face molds of everyone from Ringo Starr to Arnold Schwarzenegger, which was amusing, mainly just to see who they picked to display! The girls were biggest fans of their two digging tables where you could *discover* fossils. Andrew loved the totally unrelated but completely fun mirror maze & the dinosaur videos at the end. Overall it was pretty cool, but very overpriced for such a small display. If you can get a Groupon deal it would be worth the drive. It made for a fun afternoon for us!