A Trip to Kansas City

What a time we have had! We are in Kansas City for a few days. Rick had to attend a conference for work and with all that has been going on, we thought it best for the whole family to go. We drove up yesterday and actually had a good trip. The boys behaved amazingly well on the car ride. Neither of them were fussy or awnry. They were both in great moods and were so sweet. We stopped at Bob Evans for dinner and the server thought that Jacob's accent was adorable. It is funny because I don't usually notice him having an accent, but hearing him speak to people in Illinois, he sounded very southern. We made great time and everyone was happy so we decided to drive the whole way. We had planned to stop an hour or two out, but we figured it would be nice to not be in a hurry the next morning. We made it into Kansas City before midnight, and went looking for a hotel (we hadn't made reservations for that first night since we hadn't planned on driving the whole way). Everywhere was completely booked. Apparently everyone in Kansas City goes to a hotel when there is a football game in town? So there were no rooms in town. We were told to head back the way we came, so we stopped and checked at every hotel, and there were no rooms. To make a long story short, we ended up driving one hundred and fifty miles before finally finding a hotel that was far enough off of the interstate to still have a room. When we arrived there we found that even they had no rooms and we were so disheartened. At this point it was three o'clock in the morning and we realized that we might have to drive all the way back to St. Louis to find a hotel. So I had climbed in the back of the Suburban to change diapers and change the boys into pajamas, when suddenly the hotel clerk ran outside to tell us that since it was after three they could release a room that had been reserved and the people had no-showed. We were so thankful to have a room!

While we are here I am going to take the boys to the zoo and to the Crown Center Shopping Plaza. The zoo here is supposed to be very nice.

In Christ,