Our German friends from Lingen-Ems, Germany arrived at the farm on Wednesday evening. They come almost every summer to the U.S. for vacation and have covered most of the high points of the U.S. by now. This year they flew to Atlanta and then drove north and west sampling different sights on the way. Our joke is that Pat & I have seen more of Germany than they have and they have seen more of the U.S. than we have.
Thursday we went to the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City to have seafood at McCormick and Schmick's and then to walk around. We browsed in Williams-Sonoma where Sylvia bought a butter bell to take home and then looked around the Function Junction before the stores closed. They were suitably impressed with the Plaza - their previous look at KC led them to believe KC was a pretty delapidated place.
Friday we went to Lawrence and visited the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas. While not to be compared with the large natural history museums, it had enough to hold your interest. One of their big displays is a panorama (not considered a very scientific method of presentation these days) that was first displayed in the 1893 World's Fair - over 100 years old.
They leave today to head toward Houston and then over to end their trip on the Florida seashore - something northern Europeans like to do since they don't have any warm, sunny beaches.