Touring Kansas City with Flat Stanley

Both Joshua and Ashlyn enjoyed sending Flat Stanley out of the state in second grade when they were reading the books. We were the recipient this time of the Flat Stanley project. My niece Abby sent him to us and asked us to take him on a Kansas City adventure. We chose to go today before a big snow storm hits...

We began our adventure by displaying his presence in Kansas City :) But quickly after, an eagle snatched him...

We survived that and ventured down to our favorite free art museum.  We love the Badminton statues there! Kansas City is also known for numerous fountains around town.  We like this one in North Kansas City with a mother statue followed  by her five fun children!  It is too cold for the water to run right now, but usually they each have water spraying around their fun personalities....

Another favorite fountain in the Northland is actually on year round.  It is very frozen right now, but continues to have the water flowing.  Close up, you can see the water going under the ice.  Sometimes they have dye on the ice and light it up at night.  It's our favorite one!

Of course, you can't come to Kansas City and not eat BBQ.  We chose to take Flat Stanley to Gates even though Jack Stack is our favorite!

The Plaza is the best place in Kansas City to shop and eat so we stopped there for a quick picture too.  Our only KC Chiefs fan insisted on wearing his hat in the picture even though Flat Stanley is sporting his Bronocs outfit!  We then ventured to the National World War I Museum, also known as the Liberty Memorial.  That is one of our most famous landmarks here :)

We didn't go inside today, but grabbed a picture by the entrance as well. There is alot of good stuff in there!

We also enjoyed taking him to Union Station, which is a beautiful building.  A historic Train Station in the heart of Kansas City, MO.

One of our last places to visit was the Federal Reserve Bank.  They have a fun Money Museum there that we hope to visit soon with our homeschool group.  Now we are sending Flat Stanley back to beautiful Colorado to report back his adventures :)