After a late night out at the Royals game with Martin Tuesday night, I ended up taking the day off yesterday for some local sight-seeing.  While I was not aware of it, there are actually a precious few tourist attractions right here in our own little city.  Johan and I started the day off with a long trip southwest to the beautiful city of Olathe.    We wanted to see the famed Garmin facility.  Actually Johan was looking for a specific device, and we figured if anybody had it available it would be the place where they were made.  Turned out to be not so clever an idea, they didn’t have much of anything.  But, now I’ve seen the Garmin facility.  Continuing our Tour de Electronics, we headed back east to the mecca known as Microcenter.  We spent a little more time here than at Garmin, and made a few select purchases.  Concluding our morning shopping trip, we headed to the Old  Overland Park area and strolled the Farmers Market for a bit.  I never even knew they had one on Wednesdays, we just kind of happened across it.  Donette met us out there, and we picked up some nice looking produce for dinner.  By this time we were getting hungry, so we headed downtown and hit Arthur Bryant’s for lunch.  I like that place better every time I go, it’s always a safe bet.  It was worth noting that Johan did declare the TFB BBQ from last Saturday to be considerably better though.  Actually he had a mouthful of brisket and I couldn’t understand him;  He might have said “It’s hot out” or something, but that’s what I heard.  After lunch we made the quick drive over to the Liberty Memorial.  Despite having lived in this city for a couple of years, I have never made it to this spot, so we all got to see something new.  As everyone who has been has told me, it was very interesting, well worth the admission.  We got to go up the tower too, and enjoy the great view.  We spent several hours there, and then headed down the Boulevard Brewery.  We had tried to get in on a tour, but their website showed them all booked through August.  Still worth a stop though, we figured.  As it turned out they let us in on the tour that had just started when we arrived, score!  The tour was entertaining as always, I think I pick up new fact or two every time I go there.  After that we started making our way back towards the house, by way of Costco of course.  We bought some nice fat ribeyes for dinner, as we were starting to get a bit hungry again by that time.  Luckily the package had four steaks in it, as I torched the first two beyond any recognition.  I hate that grill, and I am convinced it hates me too.