Road Trip....

First I want to say a special THANK YOU to my mom and my Aunt Mary. We had the best time on our Girls Weekend getaway to Kansas City. I haven't gotten to spend time like that with my mom ALONE in a long time. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful family. The three of us laughed so much it was great. We started the trip Thursday morning at 9:00 am. We made our trek towards Kansas. Wow!! What flat land there is there? I thought Oklahoma was bad. Our first stop was to eat some lunch at DOUBLE D's. Yes, laugh!! That's what my aunt and I did the entire time we were there. We even laughed so hard when we first got there that we were both crying. We were in a very small town El Dorado, Kansas. This was a small Ma and Pa home cooking type restaurant. It was connected to a hotel. All the seats were taken in the restaurant so we sat out in the "courtyard" by the pool. Want to see the view we had....


This makes it look a lot better than it was. See the pool in the background...


The menu...


We finally arrived in Kansas City and headed straight to the casino. We all started off winning. The rest of the trip, well not so good. but we had a BLAST. We ate lots of good food and stayed in a beautiful hotel, The Argosy. If you are ever in Kansas City look it up.


My mom and I at the casino.


Saturday morning we headed to Topeka, Kansas to visit my cousin, her husband, and their three kids. The two girls Lindsay and Taylor were the flower girls in my wedding 9 years ago. The whole reason for this "Girl weekend" was to watch two of my VERY TALENTED cousins star in the play High School Musical at the Topeka Civic Theatre. I had NO IDEA that they were both so TALENTED. Nick, is the middle child and graduated from high school this year. He played the lead role, Troy in the play. He was AMAZING!! Taylor, is the youngest and will be a junior next year. She played the role of Cathy (cheerleader) in the play and was AMAZING as well. She has the best stage presence. She knows how to "play" the crowd. I had the best time watching them in this play. I took a few short videos of them. You will have to excuse the poor quality as it was taken by my small digital camera. There were no cameras allowed but I HAD to sneak a short video. Check them out.....
*Note* You will need to stop the music on the side before playing the videos. Enjoy!!


Pretty amazing huh? I think he has a fabulous voice.


Taylor dancing. She's the one in the front row. She does the splits at the end. I didn't get any video of her singing...She's awesome too though.


Just a glimpse of another song....

After the play all the young girls were waiting for the STARS to come out to get autographs. They swarmed Nick like he was the real Zack Efron. It was so cute. I told Nick I felt like I was the paparazzi taking his picture....HA! Here he is with the girls signing autographs....




The two stars after the show....


I'm very proud of them and can't wait to go again the next time they are STARS. GREAT JOB you two. I love you all....