Day 40

We were up early yet again but the kids were actually excited about it. Today we would all be splitting up. After breakfast we left Grammie to a day of retired leisure and headed to Kansas City. We try to give our kids experiences for their birthdays. After about an hour drive, we dropped the boys off for Dave's present to Brayden this year - a day at the College Basketball Experience.

The girls decided to go to the Lego Discovery Center which we found out was just down the road. We had to search quite a while for parking to accomodate my car with the roof carrier, but we finally were able to park in the shade for $10 and walk to the building.

I don't know too much about the basketball museum since I wasn't there, but the boys seemed to have an awesome time. Dave said within 20 minutes Brayden was dripping with sweat he was having so much fun. They basically had the place to themselves since it was a Friday so they played hard. They played against each other and against the clock. They dunked and passed and shot until their arms were about to fall off.

The Lego place wasn't much different - we were going full speed the moment we went through the doors. The girls created a few of their own creations, we shot some bad guys on a ride, they built a master builder dinosaur, and served me some delicious Lego pizza..

Laney wanted to build a tile with 1-bricks so Ryan and I built cars and raced. Check out my awesome tricycle that I assumed ownership of after a kid left. Ryan still screamed by me as my wheels fell off.

Last we visited Miniland which always seems to be our kids' favorite part. They had a Wizard of Oz area that was incredible and downtown Kansas City. We also enjoyed looking at the Chiefs stadium and the Sporting soccer stadium. But most of all the girls loved racing cars at the Kansas Speedway. We were all surprised when Miniland started to get dark all the building lit up and crickets started chirping!

Dave sent me a text letting me know they were finished and exhausted so we wrapped up our stay with Laney purchasing a small set in the store and went back to get them. A Trader Joe's stop was up next to stock up for the rest of the trip as well as all those wonderful things we can't get at home. If they knew what was good for them, they would just hurry up at build one of these in Pensacola!

We settled in for the 4 hour drive it would take to get to our next spot. By the time we got there Grammie was finishing setting up and ready to start dinner. So nice! We had three nights at this spot for some time in St. Louis. We were very excited about our plans until the camp host said places were closing early because of the riots in the city. Of course we didn't know much about it so I fell asleep around midnight researching the area around the museums to see if we would still be able to go. I didn't really get my answer before resolving to check again in the morning and decided.