Kansas City!

Originally posted on 11/2/10
Last summer we won 4 free round trip tickets to ride on Amtrak. We finally took advantage of them last weekend and took an overnight trip to downtown Kansas City. It was Teddy's first train trip and he really loved it. He held up amazingly well on each of the 5 hour train rides. He especially liked walking back to the Cafe Car and picking out treats to bring back to his seat. Our host daughter Sarah from Germany went with us and also really enjoyed her first American train trip.
Teddy had been looking forward to Kansas City for a long time. KC is supposed to have more fountains than any other U.S. city and as my readers know, Teddy loves fountains. Luckily, he was not dissapointed. There were fountains everywhere and as many and different types as he could handle. One fountain on the Crown Plaza even danced to music on the hour!
We ended up staying at the Westin right in Crown Plaza and luckily for us, right near all of the fountains. Other highlights of our trip included Fritz's restaurant, which featured burgers loaded with hashbrowns delivered to your table by a small train! The National WWI Museum was surprisingly good and has a really nice tower from which you get an excellent view of downtown. But, speaking of views, the thing that I will always remember was the view of downtown from our 14th story hotel room...it was really spectacular! And one more thing: We also met Sue's cousin Joey and his girlfriend Daria for dinner and a night tour of the Plaza fountains.
--Teddy is really growing up and we managed the trip, had a lot of fun and made some good memories.