Thursday, May 29, 2008

Semantics

So I'm officially another year older as of Monday. Not too big of a deal, although as my husband lovingly reminds me, I'm now IN my forties, not just forty! Thanks dear! Very quiet weekend overall.

School's over except for that pesky state-required hour - really, I mean, what's the point?! One kid wants to go, one doesn't. Whatev.

Work is work. I still am really enjoying it, and my boss seems to think I have something to contribute, because she keeps giving me things to do! Lol! As a matter of fact, she wants to meet for lunch tomorrow (away from the BIC) and put something else on my to do list. Hmmm...sounds intriguing...

Okay, well, life is progressing - some good, some not so much - but always blessed and forgiven - AMEN!

Monday, May 05, 2008

Goin' to Kansas City...

Okay, well, actually, we're BACK from KCMO! We went down there with some friends for a long weekend and we had a great time! Lots of music, lots of history, lots of FOOD!! Allen got to share one of his favorite neighborhoods with me, and it really was special!

We stayed in a beautiful old hotel - the Hotel Savoy. It's 120 years old, or so, and the old girl shows her age! But we both love old, classic buildings like that, so we were thrilled. We kept imagining the place in it's heyday, and how gorgeous it would have been.



This is a photo showing some of the stained glass windows on the first floor. The photo in my header is the stained glass window in the lobby ceiling...see what I mean?!

So we went to 18th & Vine, and explored all the history down there: the Blue Room, the Foundation, the Negro League Baseball Museum, the American Jazz Museum...and the people there are so amazingly friendly! They remembered Allen (or at least pretended to - ha!) and were so happy to see him again!

The music at the Blue Room and the Juke House and the Foundation was terrific, and I have discovered a new appreciation for jazz and especially the blues.

And then there was the food - have mercy it was great!!! Wow!!!

But we missed our boys, and judging from the number of calls we received, at least one of them missed us too. So we decided to come home early and take a day to recover before hitting the ground running once again.