life like wildfire

Friday! I didn't tell you about Friday! Or Saturday!

*Flashback*

Friday: I woke up at 7 am and went to the friendly neighborhood grocery store to meet up with my lovely friends! Then the girls piled into the Holbrook's suburban while the guys opted to watch the Muppets with the younger kids in the Lowe's van, and we all headed out to Union Station in Kansas City! We went to the Titanic exhibit first, where we were assigned roles of passengers, Jacob being the richest man on board with an 18 year old wife, Elise trading a survivor with 2 kids for somebody who drowned who didn't have any kids, which was preferable for her, and Tom being a 15 year old girl. We all thoroughly enjoyed the exhibit, which was really interesting and well put together, even being comparable to the permanent Titanic exhibit in Branson.

After that, we took a break for lunch, then some of us went to Science City while others went and did a Lego robotics thing that lasted incredibly long, and by the time it was over, the Science City people had gotten bored with the museum and were pressing our faces against the glass, or startling mothers and their small children when the elevator doors opened unexpectedly during a photo and they were greeted with this:

That evening, the lot of us met at the Lowe's house to cram into their 12-passenger van to go see the Hunger Games movie together! Even though I haven't read the book, it was extremely enjoyable! Making fun of the fangirls, who came decked out in homemade tee shirts with their hair in braids and trying to make it into Twilight by declaring themselves "Team Gale" and "Team Peeta", was also extremely enjoyable! Watching a movie with people who crack jokes during it is another thing which is, wait for it, extremely enjoyable!

Saturday: I met up with Beth at 11 and we drove out to St. Joseph where we wandered around the city looking for good Chinese food, but finally settling on Panda Express. After we ate, we went to Glore Psychiatric Museum where we wandered around looking at exhibits, being startled by mannequins, talking about Phineas Gage, and also finding our way to Native American, Black History, and Civil War exhibits, which included stories about people being broken out of jail by their mothers who hid pistols and files in their hoop skirts.

.....and then on Sunday I went back to BoMo. And THAT was my weekend!