Kansas City Vacation, Day 2

Sunday morning after a fun breakfast at the hotel, we headed out for another fun day.

Our first stop on Sunday was the Sea Life aquarium. We had fun exploring lots of sea creatures. It was a fun (overpriced) outing.

Elisabeth was brave enough to touch a star fish. She was proud of herself.

This little bubble was the kids' favorite part. They kept saying, "We're fish, we're fish!'

We stopped and spent a lot of time playing with this Lego sand castle. It was a good practice for Legoland :).

At the end of the museum, the kids could color their own sea creature and then watch it swim on the screen.

The aquarium is connected to Legoland (which was our plan for day 3), but Nathan could not wait to buy some new Legos. He's been saving money for months to take to Legoland. He saved most of his birthday money and all the other money he's earned and had a chunk of cash that was burning a hole in his pocket. He ended up buying two sets, and Samuel and Elisabeth got some new Legos too. The Lego store was definitely a highlight of Nathan's vacation.

After the aquarium and Lego store, we headed across the street for lunch. I had heard about a super fun train restaurant that we were all excited to try.

The kids were pumped about the conductor hats.

But the best part was that a train delivered our lunch to us. The kids were fascinated and watched every time a train drove past us wondering when it would be our turn for lunch. It was super fun, and the food was actually really good too.


After lunch we walked around a few stores at the Crown Center and stopped for dessert, of course :)

 .Then it was back to the hotel to rest and then to the water park of course.

We played until the kids were worn out and then headed back to our room for a pizza picnic.

 And to break open the Legos of course :).

I really loved how relaxing and low key this trip was compared to Disney World. I mean I loved Disney, but we were on the go from 7:00am until 10-11:00pm everyday. I wouldn't have done it any differently, because we didn't want to miss out on anything, but it was nice on this vacation to have a lot of down time to swim, relax and play with our new toys. We were always back in the room for the night by 7:00 and never had any early mornings. It was a nice change of pace.