Arizona Trip April 2026 - Day 8 Part 1: One More Night

 Monday, April 20, 2026

On the road after breakfast.

Got into Kansas City in the afternoon. 

After getting settled into the hotel we headed straight for the tiki bar.

Kon Tiki turned out to be quite a wonderful place. Jacob, our bartender, and Kayla, our server, were both wonderful.

Dale got some beer and I started out with the Pain Killer. Very well made. Not syrupy and not oversweet.

We got a couple appetizers: brussels sprouts and deep fried shrimp. 

For round 2 Dale got some white wine and I got the Mai Tai. Also VERY well made. 

                   

For dinner Dale got the grilled platter and I had the stir fry. 

For dessert I got the Cafe Lani which was a nonalcoholic drink made up of Cafe Corazon blend coffee, Coco Lopez, and coconut water. Very satisfying. 

The service was fantastic and very friendly. Our servers told us a new chef had been hired recently who revamped the whole menu. The food, by the way, was out of this world. The new chef actually stopped out to say hello to us. We let him know how much we loved the food. The decor of the place was fabulous. However, the music was not great although not terrible either. Instead of surf or exotica they played a kind of over-commercial sounding smooth jazz. It was all unShazam-able so I couldn't even find out what it was. That was the only thing I could find to bitch about. I'll still give the place an overall A+. We had such a great time. 

Trip to Leavenworth Part 3

Sunday May 29, 2011

Coffee on the porch with Mom and Dale in the a.m. Madison, the family cat, had been stuck on the porch all night. She hightailed it to her box when Dale opened the door. She was back soon enough to sit with us. They boys woke up and joined us on the porch with their Imaginext toys and Lincoln Logs from the party last night.

Breakfast at about 8:30.

Sam, Dale and I went to church with Mom at 10:30 at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Leavenworth. When we arrived the rosary was being led by a couple of women with very nasal monotone voices. The mass itself was very nice.

In the afternoon we drove in to Kansas City to take the boys to go to Science City at the Depot. Calvin's friend Diego came along with us. The boys really enjoyed it. Before getting to the Depot we drove by the Liberty Memorial which is a memorial to the fallen soldiers of World War I. It was quite beautiful. We had to take a slight detour to get to the parking ramp for the Depot as the grounds near there were getting set up for a free orchestra concert and firework show for Memorial Day weekend. After hanging out in the Depot we took a pedestrian bridge over the railroad tracks to a restaurant called Jack Stack Barbeque. There was outdoor seating that looked over the railroad tracks and you could watch trains go by. Kansas City's downtown has had a lot of nice developments since Dale and I were there last. I really liked seeing how much was going on near the railroad tracks. It was all quite beautiful.