Kansas City Has a Lot of History
We were on the train to Kansas City, Kansas when we met this woman traveling with her son. She told us they were invited to that a year ago, she and her son were invited to President Barack Obama’s inauguration. They were involved with the Presidents youth movement. They got to meet with President Obama during his campaign, she even showed us photographs of the them with Obama. She said at the inauguration, they got to meet Jennifer Lopez, and several other celebrities. They sat next to an 86 year old woman who had actually witnessed lynchings and who was very active in the civil rights movement, and now she got to witness her dreams of a black man as the president of the United States come true.
It was really great that we got to meet her and her son. We parted ways at the train station and we caught a taxi to our hotel. The taxi driver didn’t speak English too well, so it was difficult for him to understand where we wanted to go. We ended up having to type in the address into his navigation system, which he then proceeded to ignore the direction given. It took him almost an hour to get us to our hotel, needless to say, we didn’t give him a tip.
We found this hotel on the Internet after much searching. This site: had the most hotels listed and seemed to have the best rates. We highly recommend checking it out. We found our room to be quite nice. The hotel has a swimming pool, a gym and a spa. It was pretty late at night, so we ordered room service and some drinks. After we ate and sipped on our martini’s we ended up conking out.
The next morning, we caught the bus that stops right outside our hotel and head into downtown. We found a museum called the Negro Baseball Leagues Museum and we were most happy to walk inside to take a tour, it was really cold outside. The museum had really good exhibits and charts that mark the evolution of civil rights right alongside the evolution of the Negro Baseball Leagues. After the museum, we ended back out in the freezing weather, and we were hungry. We were about a mile from a vegetarian restaurant that was listed in our guide book, so we braved the weather, hands in our pockets and walked the mile to the restaurant. It was located down in a basement, and it was a Christian Vegetarian restaurant. There were all kinds of pictures of Jesus on the walls. We didn’t care, we needed to thaw out and get some nourishment. The food was okay, seems like it needed some tender loving care, or at least cooked by someone who loves food.
We caught a bus back to our hotel and we both took long hot showers before we went to bed. Tomorrow we have to be up by 5am in order to catch the train to the Ozarks.
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