Friday:
Brendan took a half day and after lunch we hit the road. Our first stop was the bank for some spending $$$. We have been collecting our change in a jar for 6+ years. The jar was just about full so we decided this would be our gas & food money. Brendan guessed there was $93 and I guessed $108. We were both surprised when they said it totaled to $244.10! Who knew!
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We checked in to the B&B relaxed for a bit and then headed to Ventana Gourmet Grill in Downtown Excelsior Springs. This is the innkeepers favorite restaurant. They had a live piano player and the seriously some of the best cheesecake I've ever had.
Saturday:
At the Inn breakfast is served in the Solarium which overlooks one of the crescent shaped lakes that surrounds the property. We enjoyed some coffee and then had a wonderful breakfast of egg casserole, sausage, biscuits, hashbrown and watermelon. The innkeeper and her late husband (a frenchman and romantic at heart) created a walking trail that ended at "the Kissing Point"so we decided to walk off breakfast. I wish I would have brought my camera because this was the most amusing part of our trip....ok most amusing for me. The tree canopied trail follows the curve of one of the Crescent lakes and it really is quite beautiful. We *ahem* Brendan figured out early that some friendly spiders had created their webs from one side of the walking path to the other. So my arachnaphobic husband got a stick, a LONG stick, and was waving it in front of him our entire walk. He looked like he was casting a spell or like the Catholic priest who signs the crucifix in mass. I had to stop several times because I was doubled over in laughter, which is pretty hard when you can't really double over any more.
The rest of our day was spent by the refreshing pool. It felt glorious on the 98 degree day.
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| This is pretty much what he did all afternoon. Couldn't stop reading.... |
For dinner I had read about a winery about 20 minutes from the Inn that served brick oven pizza. So we ventured to out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-Missouri to VanTill Family Farm & Winery. The pizza was wonderful! I think they grow most of their own vegetables, it was so fresh! They made their own whole-grain pizza crust and of course wine. Which Brendan said was pretty good.
Update on Baby Girl:
She is still moving like crazy! She is positioned sideways and no matter what position I put myself in she really likes to stay sideways. So we are praying that she will flip soon so this momma can stop stressing out!
