Day 12-14 - September 24-26, 2014
Kansas City, MO
I spent the last couple of days catching up with my friends, checking out what Kansas City has to offer (my friend is trying to recruit me up there for after I graduate). The first night was just about getting settled in, having a nice homemade steak dinner (the meat i later found out came from a butcher they went in with some friends and split a whole cow mwahahahaha AWESOME!), then hitting up his local haunts for some good local beers. We started at a nearby brewpub where I sampled their beers, which I enjoyed, before we tryed other beers from their extensive list. After a few rounds, some of his friends met up, and we went across the street to another bar with a great beer selection. In Kansas City, some places can sell bottles to go (bottle shops) and I was wishing this was one of them, but it wasn't. It had 2 beers (barrel aged old rasputin and a Cantion Iris) that I really wanted to bring home for some friends to try, but alas this place was on premise only :( . So we closed that place down, as they closed early (midnight), and went to our final stop, a restaurant with a little bit of everything for what everyone was wanting. After a drink, we headed home as I was spent from the long drive and then a night out.
The next day we got up and stumbled around the house until it was time to start the day. Went to see my friend's work and it was pretty sweet. If I could do science like that, I would enjoy it thoroughly me thinks (he absolutely loves it - I now understand). Then ran some errands with them, checked out the city's WW1 memorial which was a pretty area/building. After that, we went home so the misses could run some more errands and we went to Cinder Block Brewery for a couple drinks. It was their one year anniversary so they were having demonstrations, special tappings, etc. so we talked to a few of their employees and after having some beers, went to a german brewpub to have a drink (had to get the dunkel of course - live me the Dunkels) then decided to head home, watch Beerfest and drink home brew. Solid end to a great day.
The next day was my last day so I had to take it easy. We started by going to a local butcher to get some shopping done (they were taking apart a pig, but had all kinds of meat available) before heading to the nearby farmers market, which smelt great. Spice shops, italian meat shops, etc alternated this giant square of shops where they did some more shopping before we headed out to get some lunch at a nearby sandwich shop where I had a philly cheesesteak that was pretty good. After this we went to a bottle shop to get some souvenirs. After we had all our goodies from the day, we dropped them off at the house, then got their brewing supplies and headed to a brew shop where we proceeded to brew 2 batches of beer (I mainly watched them and tasted some different beers) and hung out with a group of men who were in town for the UTexas game that weekend and were a hoot. They were all latin american descent, the ring leader being Puerto Rican. The took over the place playing all kinds of hispanic music, dancing all over the place while the shop owner tried to teach them about brewing. It didnt help that every 5-10 mins they seemed to be opening a new bottle of beer. Either way, they were the life of the party and a great addition to the day's activities. After we were done, we headed home and I packed up and got everything ready for my departure tomorrow.
KC is a cool little town. It has new and old architecture seemingly blended into each other. Lots of beautiful churches/buildings/views from all the hills. Seems to have parks everywhere with even more fountains placed throughout the city. The highways dont make much sense sometimes, the weather was perfect the whole time, and I enjoyed the craft beer scene. Was definitely worth the trip not only to see a good set of friends, but also to experience a new city I probably wouldn't have come to otherwise.
Tomorrow the journey home begins...
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