Carrie, Carrie and Candace do KC

Last weekend I spent a few exciting days with my college roommates Carrie and Candace. It was the first time we had all been together since this sad day when they left me for bigger and better things:
Thursday afternoon Carrie and I picked up Candace from the airport and headed straight downtown. Well, maybe not straight downtown. Apparently Carrie and I don't know metropolitan KC as well as we thought we did. We did have the aid of a Garmin, but those things are limited by the ability of the people using them knowing how to operate them and where they want to go. Oops, my bad!

We had lunch at P.F. Changs and then walked around the plaza, occasionally ducking into stores that were way out of our price range. We even tried a few things on. Carrie and Candace looked cute in these bucket hats,

but Carrie quickly nixed the trendy tee I found.

We checked out the Power and Light District. We got there right when KC Live! was just getting started. We should have known it wasn't exactly our scene when we were carded before we could even get in, but once Carrie asked the security guards what there was to do if you didn't drink and got laughed at, we quietly exited.

I wasn't satisfied with our previous shopping trip so my friends were nice and humored me and we also checked out Target. Although we found a lot of clothes on sale, they didn't quite do it for us. We still had fun striking poses in the dressing room.

Candace wanted to get a souvenir from her trip, and we did find some cool "ruby slippers," but she ultimately decided against it.


We rounded out our first day with free ice cream (thanks for introducing us to the Sheridan's ice cream club, Carrie!), staying up late chatting, and watching an old favorite, Ella Enchanted.

Friday morning we went to Independence and Liberty Jail. Although I haven't heard it myself, Elder Holland gave a recent CES Devotional centered around Joseph Smith's experiences in the Liberty Jail. Candace told us a bit about it and now I am very interested in reading the transcript once it is posted here. I like visiting both of these places. I always leave feeling a bit better about things and things were no different this time.

Here we are in the children's area,


and again in the front amongst the elephant ears. We know it is okay to take pictures in the shrubbery because the missionaries told us we could.

We walked around in Independence a bit and boy are we glad we did! We found out that the world is ending next year! You can go ahead and thank us for passing along this valuable information. Here are Candace and I just after we found out the news!

Don't think we were rude by taking a picture. If you click and enlarge the picture, you see that we were just following directions. (Look at the top of the sign.)

That night we went to a Royals game. My sister, Laura joined us.

It just so happened to be "Buck Night," so we helped ourselves to hot dogs, small soft drinks, and peanuts for only a dollar a piece.


I think the high light of the night for me was when Garth Brooks (via the big screen) led us all in singing "Friends in Low Places." When I told Tony about that he said it was an appropriate song for the Royals because they are in, this is an exact quote, "low places." To borrow a line from my favorite Full House character Stephanie Tanner, "How rude!"

A few years have past since we all got down together, but we showed we could still bust a move.


Billy Butler became my new favorite Royal after getting a hit in the 7th to earn everyone in the stands a free ice cream sundae. Even though the Royals lost, we were still winners. That's right, we got free ice cream both nights!

Saturday morning came too fast! It was sad saying goodbye, but I'm glad we had enough fun that we want to make it happen again. Those of you who couldn't come--we missed you! Carrie and Candace, thanks for the efforts you took to make this awesome weekend happen!