Kansas City Vacation

Since Erin had a couple days of a break around the 4th, we thought we would do a quick get away as a family.  Nothing crazy, but at least get out of town and spend some good quality time together.  Erin and I decided we wanted to go somewhere that we could really focus on Lukas and do some fun activities with him.  We figure that KC was a great place to go try some things we have never been to.

We quickly realized how different vacation is when you make it "kids vacation" as opposed to more of the adult kind that we have always had.  Your restaurant selection changes quickly, you need a place that is very kid friendly, so that way when your child starts singing "The Lion King" at the top of his lungs no one around you notices or cares.  On top of that, when you are out and about all day, your child may not get his normal afternoon nap of 2 + hours.  This will in turn lead to some melt downs and set backs, all in front of crowds of people.  Talk about making you sweat in a 100 degree weather.  Then of course like briefly mentioned is the crowds of people!  We started out in a line for one activity, but didn't last long when we were told it was a hour and a half wait from where we were standing.... outside.... in the heat.... with an almost 2 year old, situation of a disaster waiting to happen.  We opted to come back later in the evening when it was much less busy.  Great decision on our part!

I will stop with the yapping and share some pictures of the trip and let them speak for themselves.

We started out at Legends where we got a little shopping and then tried out the T-Rex Restaurant.  I had seen it many times before, but never thought to eat there.  Lukas LOVED it!  He talked about eating dinos all weekend.  The pictures are not great since there are moving dinosaurs to distract him every second.

He is excited to go see DINOS

After dinner we were planning on trying out bowling for the first time, but I was mistaken in thinking there was a bowling alley at Legends.  I swore their used to be, but I probably just don't have a good memory.  As a last option we thought we would go try some games at Dave and Buster, hoping there were some little kids ones he could play.  Lukas loved all the kids running around the colorful lights.  We won enough tickets to get a new lion stuffed animal (we are a little obsessed with the Lion King right now).

On Friday we headed down to Crown Center to check it out.  The lines were long in the morning so after lunch we went back to the hotel to swim a little and then tried again that evening.  It was a great evening that I got to top off by visiting Char at her and Bryce's new house.

Kaleidoscope

We are not big into coloring but liked the little hide outs with buttons to push.

Fritz's 

We tried the train place for lunch.  Lukas loved all the trains and liked watching them drive along the top with the food.

Lego Land

We were just a little young to really enjoy everything they had to offer, but we had a great time still.  We missed out on the play place and the spinning ride cause we were just a little too short (Erin tried to get him on, but just a couple inches shy).  He liked building and digging in the legos though.

It was a great couple of days with a lot of fun packed in.  I think Lukas enjoyed it too.  Its not too tough to make your child happy though when the thought of pushing the elevator button sends him running down the hall :)