I’m too spent to put a lot of effort into this, but I’m trying.\u00a0 That was a long weekend, and busy too.\u00a0 Way too many activities for my liking.\u00a0 We kicked the weekend off on Thursday night, since I had Friday off.\u00a0 We motored over to the downtown Peanut to see if our friend Ann was working, which she was.\u00a0 When she’s in the kitchen it usually leads to a mammoth feed-a-thon, and this trip was no exception.\u00a0 We\u00a0started things off with a pile of potato chips, beautifully paired with a cup of blue cheese and hot sauce for dipping.\u00a0 This was followed by a dozen of the best hot wings in the city slathered with more blue cheese, and then topped off things off with a triple BLT served with piping hot cheese fries.\u00a0 Perhaps not the healthiest meal I’ve ever eaten, but certainly one of the best.<\/p>\n
Friday’s events centered around John & Susan’s wedding reception down on the Plaza.\u00a0 We decided to make a day of it, so we took the dogs to the kennel, made the arduous journey down to the Plaza and got a room at the hotel.\u00a0 The day kind of got away from us and we didn’t do a whole lot, but we did have lunch at the recently opened Jack Stack.\u00a0 I had the burnt ends, and Donette ordered the always-solid Poor Russ sandwich.\u00a0 The burnt ends were typical; Big hunks of brisket.\u00a0 I don’t think any place around here puts a whole lot of effort into their burnt ends.\u00a0 Maybe LC’s, but they’re hit and miss there too.\u00a0 I’m still looking.\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong, they were good, just not what I was looking for.\u00a0 Can’t complain;\u00a0 It’s definitely an upgrade on the KC Masterpiece that was there before.\u00a0 After lunch we went back to the hotel and took a little nappy, then Donette had to go take pictures with the wedding party.\u00a0 After that, well, the reception.\u00a0 It was a little on the hoity-toity side, but fun all the same.\u00a0 It was pretty funny seeing the Brooksider crowd all dressed up;\u00a0 Pretty much everybody had a suit on.\u00a0 (Except me of course… what a slob.)<\/p>\n
Saturday we woke up and got ready for the trip back home.\u00a0 We got the car all packed and gassed up, filled our coffee mugs, and headed out.\u00a0 When we finally pulled into our neighborhood, we were so exhausted we had to go straight to Sharp’s for some breakfast.\u00a0 I just can’t stand traveling in my old age.\u00a0 Mapquest put the trip at just under 3 miles but it seemed a lot further.\u00a0 Maybe that’s if you take Ward Parkway;\u00a0 We went down Wornall.\u00a0 Anyway, a solid plate of biscuits and gravy fixed me up.\u00a0 For our afternoon entertainment we headed down to the Brooksider and watched the KU – Kansas game, which was relatively entertaining.\u00a0 Most of the crowd was pro-Kansas I’d say, or at least anti-KU.\u00a0 Even more specifically, anti-KU-fan.\u00a0 There was a small group of KU’ers but they left shortly, leaving behind their usual pile of cigarette butts and 25-cent tips.\u00a0 Unfortunately the game conflicted with the Brookside parade going on outside, so we missed all that action for the ump-teenth year in a row.\u00a0 Oh well, gotta pick your events.\u00a0 We saw most of it through the front window I guess.<\/p>\n
Sunday we slept in a bit, then headed downtown for lunch at Willies<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0If you haven’t checked it out yet, it’s not a bad place to hang out.\u00a0 Lots of TV’s, standard menu,\u00a0pretty solid location.\u00a0 My stomach was still a bit out of sorts from Thursday’s dinner, so I stuck to a grilled chicken sandwich with\u00a0cottage cheese on the side.\u00a0 Not bad;\u00a0 Kind of hard to mess up a chicken sandwich.\u00a0 After\u00a0lunch, it was off\u00a0to the big auto show.\u00a0 Donette has decided she may need a new vehicle for whatever reason.\u00a0 Yeah, ours is 10 years old, but it still has a lot of life in it.\u00a0 We’ll see what comes of that; we picked out a few “favorites.”\u00a0 I should say, SHE picked out a few favorites.\u00a0 I pretty much hated everything she showed me, and she literally wouldn’t even look at the ones I liked.\u00a0 What can you do.\u00a0 Apparently I have been shut out of the decision making process on the new vehicle.\u00a0 I didn’t catch the associated reasoning but I heard something about “blah blah blah motorcycle blah blah mumble mumble scooter blah blah blah.”\u00a0 Something like that.\u00a0 We walked around down there for like 2 hours, which pretty much wore us out.\u00a0 I took a ride around the city on the motorcycle for a little practice,\u00a0and that’s about it.\u00a0 For evening entertainment I watched “The Visitation<\/a>,” which was\u00a0absolutely awful.\u00a0 I was highly amused by the cast though, which included Kelly Lynch (a.k.a. “the hot chick from Roadhouse”) and Randy Travis.\u00a0 Man, hard to believe the movie wasn’t a bigger hit with a star-studded lineup like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m too spent to put a lot of effort into this, but I’m trying.\u00a0 That was a long weekend, and busy too.\u00a0 Way too many activities for my liking.\u00a0 We kicked the weekend off on Thursday night, since I had Friday off.\u00a0 We motored over to the downtown Peanut to see if our friend Ann […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}