Evan and I are on our second "Geocaching over Memorial Day Weekend" trip, this time landing us in Kansas City. We are staying in a hotel near the plaza in the MO side, but our first caches of the took place in KS while driving about exploring the area. We decided to dedicated the first day to touristy things, since so many of those places are closed Sundays and holidays.
A first, and very necessary, stop was at the car wash. The drive from Dallas to KC left us with barely any area of the front of the car not covered in bugs. Unfortunately, we took the vinyl travel bug logo off my car and when we came back hours later to look for it, no sign it was ever there. Guess it is finally time for us to splurge on getting this permanently adhered.
Our next stop was a visit (and guided tour) of the Toy & Miniature Museum. This place is fantastic! Lots of old toys, dollhouses, and little furniture. I think I enjoyed the marble room the most (they said there are over 1,000,000 million marbles in there. I'd recommended trying to catch a tour through - they give a lot of details (especially about the dollhouses) that I never would have gotten on my own. I could have spent probably the whole day there. When we left, a little girl (not with us) exclaimed "we were only supposed to be there for 30 minutes but we were there for hours!" I totally agree with her.
Found a very neat little store called Mash with lots of handmade and interesting things inside. The owner (mom and daughter, mom was there) was very nice. We picked up a housewarming present for a friend as well as some cards for special events (if you are the first of our friends to become pregnant in the near future, funny card coming your way). The owner suggested a place for us to grab lunch, which was a short walk down the street.
We headed to the hotel to rest and decide what to do next. There are a ton of museums here, many of which I visited in college and others that on normal weekends we'd probably visit. For example, there is a flight history museum, but we elected not to go because we went last weekend to the 1940's terminal at the Houston airport, which is a museum. Too much flight history for me for one...year (Evan, on the other hand, would likely have enjoyed it anyways).
Since we forgot to pack shorts, headed to grab some, and grabbed a couple of caches on the way back. The first was way cute and one I found it the description made sense. It was also my first cache in Kansas, which is great cause the second was so boring :-)
Notable cache of the day:
Grasshopper Pie
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