{"id":216,"date":"2007-08-20T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2007-08-20T11:00:34","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T16:00:34","slug":"a-weekend-in-the-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/a-weekend-in-the-wilderness\/","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend In The Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey it cooled off a bit today, I guess thanks to the torrential downpours yesterday.\u00a0 Good thing, I was about to literally melt riding that scooter around.\u00a0 Before I get around to my always-fascinating weekend coverage, I’ll throw out another bit of excitement from last week.\u00a0 Martin and I traveled to beautiful Garden City, MO, last Tuesday to attend a KCBS<\/a> barbecue judging class.\u00a0 It was an interesting event;\u00a0 We pretty much sat there and ate ‘que for about 3 hours.\u00a0 They went over what to look for, what not<\/em> to look for, proper judging etiquette, blah blah blah.\u00a0 Interesting stuff, if maybe a bit lengthy for my stunted attention span.\u00a0 My plan now is to hopefully go judge a few contests, to kind of survey the competition.\u00a0 I’m going to give everybody top scores, to lull them into a false sense of security.\u00a0 Sneaky.<\/p>\n

Anyway, for our weekend entertainment, we traveled to Mahoney State Park<\/a> for my sister Sharon’s surprise 40th birthday party.\u00a0 (Made even more surprising by the fact that her birthday isn’t until December…)\u00a0 We got there Friday afternoon and got our campground all situated, then settled in to wait for the party.\u00a0 Actually, we stayed in a room in the Lodge, complete with A\/C and wireless Internet access.\u00a0 But, if I want to call it camping, so be it.\u00a0 I was in a State Park, so I musta been roughing it.\u00a0 The party was a big success;\u00a0 Anything with a fried chicken dinner is a big success in my book.\u00a0 We turned in a bit earlier than most though, because 1) There was a large constituent of little people there and they were giving me a nervous tic, and 2)\u00a0 We always turn in early.<\/p>\n

Saturday the vast majority of the revelers went to the nice water park which was on site.\u00a0 We, however, lamely opted to take a side trip into Omaha and do some shopping.\u00a0 Again, the little ‘un population was a bit dense at the water park.\u00a0 Anyway, we just kind of shopped around anywhere that looked interesting, including a Big Dog Cycle<\/a> shop, Cabela’s and Bass Pro.\u00a0 Our lone purchase was some new BBQ gloves, although we did shop the GPS’ pretty hard.\u00a0 After that outing, we enjoyed a very tasty buffet dinner back at the lodge, and then went and saw a play<\/a> at the local Melodrama.\u00a0 (They have a very wide variety of entertainment options at this place, especially for a State Park.)\u00a0 It was a pretty amusing diversion;\u00a0 If you’ve never been to a “Melodrama” (I certainly hadn’t,) you boo the villian, cheer the hero, and other such assorted silliness.\u00a0 You also pelt the villain with popcorn, which the all the kiddies seemed to enjoy immensely, to put it mildly.\u00a0 I think there were about 100 people under the age of 6 in our group, although there might have been closer to 20 and they were just moving really fast.\u00a0 Hard to tell.<\/p>\n

Sunday we got up early and hit the road.\u00a0 Ronda was watching the dogs again so we had to get back and provide some relief there.\u00a0 After a good mauling by the mutts, I headed directly down to the Brooksider to watch the Royals and soak up some peace and quiet.\u00a0 Whew.\u00a0 I didn’t make it all the way through the game;\u00a0 If you watched any of it, it was very evident early on how it was going to end up.\u00a0 Not to mention, my quest for peace and quiet was somewhat dimmed by the fact that they were sanding the floor in the next room.\u00a0 Good grief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey it cooled off a bit today, I guess thanks to the torrential downpours yesterday.\u00a0 Good thing, I was about to literally melt riding that scooter around.\u00a0 Before I get around to my always-fascinating weekend coverage, I’ll throw out another bit of excitement from last week.\u00a0 Martin and I traveled to beautiful Garden City, MO, […]<\/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-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}