As Rogers and Hammerstein once said, "Everything is up to date in Kansas City!" We arrived just after noon today from St. Louis and set out a little later for our first tour of the city. First stop...naturally...was the Truman Sports Complex which houses the stadiums for both the Royals and the Chiefs...side by side with a huge parking lot. This makes so much sense as no matter which team is playing there is plenty of parking for everybody. Then it was downtown to the Crown Center which is, probably, the entertainment, restaurant, office, shopping and apartment center of the city. It is also the home of the center piece of Kansas City industry, Hallmark Cards. We did a tour of the Hallmark visitor center and really enjoyed a walk through the history of the company, their cards, television shows and every other aspect of their empire. They even had working presses and explained how cards are made from concept to final print. We found downtown KC to be very nice, clean, and a good mixture of very new and very old buildings and good wide streets. Then it was time for the grand finale...dinner at the restaurant that food critic and author Calvin Trillin called the best restaurant in America...Arthur Bryant's Bar-B-Q. As you can see in the picture, the wait in line was about 30 minutes, but worth every minute. I will have to explain in person the entire process and exquisite taste as I just can't put it in writing. Oh well, the perfect ending to a perfect day. God is so good!
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