Kansas City

Chad and I were in need of a get-a-away which is way more difficult with a newborn especially with a toddler in tow. I have breastfed 2 babies but I am far from an expert and will not feed in public, my boobs are too floppy and my babies have always gotten way too distracted with what’s going on around them to eat. With that being said Chad and I looked at locations in about a 4 hour radius. We landed on Dallas or Kansas City and decided to give Kansas City a go.

 We’ve heard really good things about Kansas City and wanted to try out the Legoland there so that was our main activity. We are in dire need of a bigger car so we rented a Tahoe to test it out and headed out the Wednesday before Easter. After finally getting all packed, let me tell you packing for 2 kids including a toddler and baby is exhausting, sending Karl to get boarded we were off! We stopped just outside of Kansas City and stayed with Chad’s cousin Wednesday night. We left right around nap time with the idea that both kids would sleep in the car. Well Grady slept about 30 minutes and I bought Audrey a portable sound machine and slept almost the whole time. Chad’s cousin has a little boy who loves cars as well so Grady was in hog heaven. After the kiddos went to bed we caught up for a little bit and went straight to bed.

Thursday was our big Legoland day. Grady woke up just in time to send the big kids off to school and was fascinated by the big bus they got on. We loaded all of our belongings up and we were off once again. Legoland was only about a 25-minute drive so we stopped to get breakfast on our way. Grady fell asleep on our way to Legoland but woke up just as we were entering the parking garage. Our reservations were at 10-10:30 we parked our vehicle around 10:25 but little did we know that the free parking garage we parked in only had entrances to elevators on 2 floors so by time we figured that out and made our way into Legoland it was about 10:45. Luckily they didn’t care. I didn’t know what to expect but once we got inside it was a lot smaller than I imagined. It was super cool to see everything they can create with Legos however there was a very small area for Grady’s age so we were a little disappointed with that. We ended up staying about an hour and a half and pretty much just paid for him to go down a slide but hey he had fun and that’s all that matters.

Our next stop was supposed to be a restaurant called fritz’s in crown center, it’s a restaurant that has toy trains that run above you and drop your food down from the train. I talked to a few people that have been and they said that the food really wasn’t that good so since the line was out the door we decided to go to another restaurant called “Spin” and it was decisions. I also heard great things about Sheridan’s frozen custard so we grabbed some ice cream on our way to the car. Our plan was to check into the hotel and both kids take a nap well Grady was not having it plus it was a new place and he was too excited. I was able to find a hotel that had 2 separate rooms so Grady could sleep in the living room and we could have a separate room and he wouldn’t interrupt Audrey. Audrey ended up taking about a 3 hour nap so Chad and I switched off so we could also get a nap in.

After Audrey woke up we went shopping for a little bit before dinner. There was a shopping center downtown KC and right down the road from our hotel so it was perfect. Of course wouldn’t you know that Grady would fall asleep in the stroller while shopping! For dinner we tried out some famous Kansas City BBQ and I have to admit I am not a Kansas City BBQ fan. I think I’ll stick to my good ole Oklahoma BBQ. The sweet lady’s that worked in the restaurant thought our kiddos where the cutest however Grady was not on his best behavior and we ended up having to pack it all up and eat back at our hotel.

The next day we woke up and started to head home but of course we had to stop by an Ikea on the way out. I ended up getting Audrey’s 1^st birthday present (I know super early, but I don’t know when I’ll be at an Ikea again before that). I had a shopping list of items I wanted to pick up but we ended up walking the store and picking up WAY more items than what was on our list. On the way home the kids did fantastic up until about an hour from the house, which I don’t blame them.

Overall it was a great little get away but if I learned anything that it was to stay in 1 place inside of having to pack, unpack, pack, unpack and pack again. It was fine when it was just Chad and I but boy do kiddos have a lot of stuff and my back is still killing me from carrying everything.