Sunday, August 31, 2008

Kansas City Trip


August 28th the Hobbs family woke up early and left the house at 5:30am in order to make the plane in Louisville at 7:55am. We tried to keep Whitney sleeping; however, once she realized we were off on a trip she was wide awake and ready for the action. She did awesome on all of the plane rides. The only problem we had was keeping her in her seat for a full 2 hours span (lots of gummies and teddy grahams). We arrived in Kansas City at 2pm and got our rental van (a Chrysler Town & Country). I swear I will NEVER own a minivan; however this thing was nice. It had a tv and pull down carseats (so much for packing the very heavy Britax along). We arrived at Uncle Matts around 2:30 and I don't think we stopped until we got back on the plane Sunday at 1pm. Thursday and Saturday nights we got to spend time with Uncle Joel, Aunt Pee Wee and Madi. They provided us with two great meals!! Friday morning we got up and headed off the the Federal Reserve of Kansas City for a tour. Whitney got stuck in her stroller in the turnstyle on the way out (funny story) and had to be rescued by the security officers (so embarrassing). We left there for lunch outside at Jack Stacks. That night we fixed dinner at home and hung out at Uncle Matts. Saturday was touring KC and checking out some AMAZING houses in Kansas, the WWI memorial, and Union Station (very cool old train station). Then lunch at the Cheesecake Factory on the Plaza. Dinner at Uncle Joels and home to bed. Sunday we got up for Starbucks and got packed up to head home. The weekend went by very fast but we had a great time and our hosts (Matt and Andrea) were very gracious. We already have a list of places and things we would like to do when we make a return visit (maybe next year). Check out some of the pictures for glimpse of our trip.

Whitney and Blankie
Whitney and Daddy on the Plane



Uncle Matt and Andrea

At the World War I Museum

At the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City




Union Station













Jack Stacks for lunch
Cheesecake Factory

World War I Museum (outside in front of the tower and on the top of the tower-awesome view of the city)







Uncle Joels (playing on the trampoline with Madi)









2 comments:

Jennifer said...

OH MY GOSH!!!!!! MATT IS SO TALL AND HANDSOME!!

Whitney is just the cutest... we REALLY need to get together soon. (Like before she graduates from HS)

The Alexander Family said...

Glad to see you are still alive! We missed you at the couples shower. We need to all go to dinner soon.