After our weekend adventures in the Ozarks, we hitched a ride with family the four hours or so to Kansas City, Missouri. We spent a few more days with Bill's mom, and got a chance to hang out with the always entertaining and delightful Granny.
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| Bill and a happy granny |
Granny has been a huge cycling fan for years, so we promised her goodies from our Tour de France adventures. We picked up quite a lot of merchandise from the "Fun Park" so that all our family's race fans got a little memento from this year's race. Granny received a t-shirt and carrier bag and she couldn't have been more excited.
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| Granny with her new Tour de France shirt |
She made sure we took a photo pointing at our day one finish line on the back of her shirt, and another one of her wearing and holding her new items. Granny must have had me laughing up a storm, as this photo is quite blurry - sorry!
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| Granny with her Tour loot |
One night while we were visiting Bill's mom, we drive over to Alan's side of KC (the Kansas side) for dinner. We drove by the Schlitterbahn water park because it had been in the news lately. Their new waterslide, the Verrukt, had to be retrofitted before humans could ride it. It seems the drop was so steep, the first few trial runs (with weighted dummys) catapulted the riders into the air. Oopsies! The slide has now been fixed and Bill wanted to ride it, but we never had the opportunity. Maybe next visit... but I certainly won't be riding it with him!
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| World's tallest waterslide, Verrukt |
We took advantage of the mild weather the next day to go to Powell gardens, a botanical garden near Bev's home. I took quite a number of photos of their flowers and lilly pad covered lake, and most turned out great. With such a nice day, it was hard to take a bad photo!
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| Powell Gardens |
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| Beautiful day! |
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| Even more lillypads |
The gardens are quite large, so we caught a little trolly to take us to different sections of the park. In one section they had yet more beautiful flowers and a gorgeous little chapel.
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| Flowers |
I am sure they host quite a number of weddings in this beautiful chapel!
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| Chapel |
It was a lovely, warm (but by no means hot) summer day and we just really enjoyed hanging out and relaxing. What a wonderful day!
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| Bev and Bill, chillaxin' |
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