Memorial Day 2014

Leavenworth Courthouse. Photo taken Memorial Day, May 26, 2014.

Leaving Leavenworth

On the Kansas side of the Missouri River about to cross over into the state of Missouri. Photo taken from car window on Monday, May 26, 2014. 

Return Trip

Monday May 26, 2014

We were on the road by 9:00 a.m.  Mom was driven down a week ago by Uncle Denny and returned home with us. Athena's good behavior at Sam and Becky's and also in the car impressed. Her only incident involved throwing up on the carpet and that was a result of feeding he a little faster than usual but also, we think, due to the excitement of being in a new place. The boys really enjoyed having Athena around. Just before we left Cashel said, "I'm getting used to having a dog around." Last year they were much more vocal about expressing to Sam how much they'd like to have a dog of their own. I wonder if Sam and Becky anticipated that this year and had a little talk with them because there was not a peep about it this trip.

The drive back was long and uneventful. It would be nice to break it into two days sometime in the future.

Saw a lot of these driving through Iowa:

Memorial Day Weekend 2013

I picked up some Jagermeister at the liquor store and when we got home from our evening out I got Sam to try some. He'd never had any before and it turns out he rather liked it.  The bottle of Jag came with a nifty little flask. Sam showed me the flask that Becky and the boys got him for this past Christmas. His was from the Irish store in Weston and was covered with brown leather and made mine look a little chintzy. The surface in the above photo is actually a trunk that, according to Mom, her father had made when he was younger. The trunk was mine for a number of years but when Mom moved out of the house on Stevens a few years back, I asked Becky if she wanted it. She said yes and it now looks great on the front porch of their house on Walnut Street.

Memorial Day Weekend 2013

After dinner at the BBQ place, Becky took Dale and me to a shop where she's helping out with the window displays. It's a cute place and she's done a really great job decorating. 

Memorial Day Weekend 2013

We made it to Leavenworth by about 2:30 p.m. and had a little time to relax before heading off to dinner at a great rib joint. Calvin, Cashel, and Cairic loved playing Doodle Jump on my iPhone while we were waiting for dinner. I must say they were great about taking turns and not fighting about it. I will say the folks at All Slabbed Up! were not messing around when it came to the food. We're talkin' serious BBQ here.

Trip to Leavenworth Part 6 - Back to Minneapolis

Monday May 30, 2011

Memorial Day. Left Leavenworth at about 10 a.m. and had a nice sunny morning for the drive. Arrived back in Minneapolis at about 6 p.m.

Trip to Leavenworth Part 4 - More Photos

From top:

1) Leavenworth County Courthouse

2) Location of Farmer's Market

3) Sock Monkey Cairic got for his birthday.

4 & 5) Inside the Kansas City Railroad Depot

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.