Friday night I went on a road trip to Kansas City with my friend Dee and her son Dillon. We met Dillon's Dad Doug (say that quickly 3 times!) there so that Dillon could spend the weekend with him.
We drove directly to the T-Rex Cafe, located on the west side of Kansas City in Legends at Village West. This is a huge shopping area where you walk from store to store outside instead of inside like a mall. The exterior appears to be a cliff from pre-historic times that has trees, water falls into a lagoon, dinosaurs and the like. Then you walk inside and it's almost indescribable! But there is a great writeup with more great photos on the cafe here. See for yourself!
Dillon loves dinosaurs and this was his cup of tea! He is standing next to the greeter at the door, T-Rex himself, and if you zoom in, you'll see the baby 'saurs!
Here is the head of the T-Rex from the photo above.
This is behind the ice bar that lights up, an aquarium with beautiful fish. Above it sits a gi-normous version of an octopus! The tentacles reach out over the tops of the tables and if you look closely, you'll see that they move! So cool! The shells in front are the back of some tables for dining. You'll also see this in the article of the cafe.The tables are scattered in between the different dinosaurs and trees. Overhead you'll see jelly fish, eels, meteor replicas that light up, branches from over-grown trees, stars, and many ice-age objects hanging down over various tables. There is also a gift shop for souvenirs. Next to that is an activity area where kids can look for dinosaur bones! It's very impressive when you walk through the door. Dillon didn't know that we were going there and he was so excited, needless to say, when he saw the building! After stuffing our tummy's, Dee and I hit the road back to Omaha. It takes roughly 2 1/2 hours one way and when we got back home, it was almost 1 AM. I still had to get in a nap before work the next morning! Ugh!!
But we had a great drive and super fun at the T-Rex Cafe! I highly recommend it if you go to Kansas City!
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Yeah!!! I feel like Dillon's my own little local celebrity. That was the funnest trip, and all we did, pretty much, is drive! Thanks for going with me, and keeping me laughing and AWAKE!
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