Today is our “take it easy” day so we didn’t do much but to make our way to Kansas City. We planned this day to get ready for a big travel day tomorrow – a 9 hour ride from KC to Denver. 

We had a leisure morning with breakfast at the hotel restaurant.  After breakfast, we made our way to Kansas City.  We made  a few stops on the way to fuel up.  Our major adventure today is finding this travel area somewhere between SL and KC where there are various fast food places and gas station.  There’s this cool gift shop store where they sell different local products on sale including souvenirs.  They had t-shirts, mocassins, glass art, guns and fireworks, among other things.  I couldn’t resist taking a picture of this room filled with so much fireworks – it was funny.  We saw so many fireworks store advertisement throughout our drive, that Robert wished they allowed you to light up the fireworks in the back of the store or on the parking lot so he could buy and light some fireworks.  Boys will be boys. :)

Yesterday we sighted the first Jack in the Box.  Today we saw another one, but we opted to wait till we get to Kansas for our next meal.

Of course, as it is Kansas City, we had some Barbeque.  We followed the hotel attendant’s suggestion and went to Fiorella’s Jack Stack Barbeque. We had an all american meal of bbq and beer.  We had some locak Kansas Beer and it was great with the bbq. Despite some other guest’s insistence  that we should try some other joint, we thought the bbq at Jack was impeccably good and of course they offer huge portions.  We were gonna drive around a bit, but we really wanted to get some rest before tomorrow.  Before going back to our hotel, we did find a drive-through Starbucks where Robert satisfy his Starbucks obsession today.  So for now, this is it….

Breakfast:  P:  short ribs and scrambled egg burritto w/ potato and green onions hashbrowns; R: breakfast buffet
Dinner: appetizer: wings & burnt ends; P: Jack’s best combo (very big – had to take most of it home) with barbeque beans and cheddar corn; R: sliced meat trio (pork, beef and turkey) with bbq beans and cheddar corn.   
 

-p