It's funny all the things you run into while you're trying to get from one part of the city to another.
A fender bender causes a three lane stop for a mile or two on a major highway and while waiting for traffic to slowly crawl its way through, cars try to weave their ways between two inch gaps because they don't know whether they want to stay on the freeway or attempt to fly off of it. With flares and at least two police cars on the road, we had expected that something big happened-- but a simple fender bender it was.
Driving in KC has never been so amusing as today as our beloved Garmin attempted to direct us in the most outstanding directions possible just to pass through the middle of nowhere to arrive somewhere. At one point, we actually believed that we had pissed off the navigator enough that it would leave us stranded in an area we were unfamiliar with and then just shut down, taking out car and cell phones with it.
My company and I would never return home again.
But taking a very scenic, detour-ish route, we finally ended up at the locations requested.
Not that I'm complaining, because it's nice that we have a Garmin to direct us where to go. During the evening while looking for a way to get to the Cheesecake Factory in Overland Park-- yes, we ended up going a second time-- we drove passed a lot of very nicely designed residences. They were old, but they were beautiful with layouts that gave some an old fashioned, Victorian feel and others large enough to be mansions. The streets entrances to each neighborhood had identical greeting statues in the forms of flower pots, lions, etc., etc., etc...
There is nothing I love more than seeing all the unique statues, monuments, fountains, and various artistic displays in this area. Our own hometown has a lot of pieces of metal that we may like to call art, but they hold absolutely nothing against everything here in KC.
Driving in Kansas City is a little bit crazier than in Wichita. Traffic laws seem to be thrown out the window as car after car zoomed passed us as we too broke the law by going a couple miles over the speed limit. Even in heavy traffic, we kept seeing cars zip in and out of lanes barely few inches from grazing a car in front or behind.
Shopping today was rather productive. New York and Co. managed to pry money out of my hands gleefully as I watched on with puppy dog pouting. After that, I was sucked into a nice little place called Teavana that pretty much hypnotized me like an enchantress-- yes, they got some of my money too. My friends did their spending as well at New York and Co., but apparently when it came to Maurices, we seemed quite hesitant.
While it felt like we did a lot of things today, we really spent a lot of time driving around looking for different shopping malls or shopping districts. We found Zona Rosa after a slight detour to a desolate looking Indian Springs shopping center that may or may not have been located in a ghost town. I swear that when we come back next year, someone is going to tell us that Indian Springs has not existed for at least twenty years and what we saw was nothing. I bet my life on it-- but we don't really have to bet.
Zona Rosa looked to be a newer outdoor shopping district. There were still lots that were advertising for lease and the area was lain out very ideally with a few park-like areas were you can take pictures or just sit and enjoy the peace of the outdoors. Next year, I don't mind coming back to Zona Rosa as it is a nice area to visit, even if you're just going to walk around and window shop.
Overall, with an amusing car ride from one place to another, we had a lot of fun.
We had had plans to go to the Power and Light District, but currently lounging in the hotel room, we all seem to settled to want to go anywhere else. I don't mind that so much-- I think we've hit the point where just lounging feels good anyway. A nice, almost light turned heavy dinner at Cheesecake Factory, I think has gotten us to exhausted to do anything else.
Food has been great, shopping has been fun, random driving roadtrip is amusing... I'd say that the trip so far is going excellent.
Tomorrow will be the last day and our plans seem to be along the lines of last shopping plus lunch and then whatever else. But it's not set since we like to go with the flow-- itineraries are not for us and may drive us crazy.
Day three of the Kansas City trip-- still going very well.
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