Ophelia's Restaurant and Inn
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Great steak and family roots in KC
I am too tired to write tonight. Many thanks to Gene, Greg and Garilyn Barner for a wonderful dinner last night and a grest tour of Kansas City and family roots this morning. We're in West Mining (or something like that!), Kansas, tonight, camping next to a giant -- and I do mean GIANT -- steam shovel. details tomorrow, after we get some sleep and take some ...
First day of crazy!
... feel the history of this great town sinking down into our bones. I took a big deep breath and let the clean air wash over my lungs, tired of being in a cooped up train I immediately tugged on my members arms and we went on our way.
We checked into the hotel we were staying at for the time being, after getting everything settled in we headed to the truman library, ready to divulge ...
A home for a few nights
We were blessed to be taken in to our friend's brothers home with his family. Dan and Erin plus their super fun daughters Laura and Molly! We stayed for two nights with them! All of them were so hospitable. We played Jenga with the girls and had a blast. Laura especially who is 9 was hilarious! She had such a sense of humor and Molly was very sweet! Erin made us a delicious dinner. They made us feel right at home! Thank you so much!! ...
Mom and Dad's house
I just thought that I would share a little bit about my parents' house. They LOVE it, and quite understandably so. I love it too, actually. This post is going to be much more about pictures than words, because there's not a whole lot to say.
They have a house.
There's a pond.
They have chickens.
They also have a fire-pit.
View photos for more awesomeness.
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Jesse James Farm and Museum
... a piece of him, and to keep enough stones there, his family would go and get stones from somewhere else so they didn't run out, haha love it. If you look at the picture I took of the grave site (where he is no longer buried, incidentally) you can see tons of stones still there, I guess just in-case people want to continue to take them.
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