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| Marlena |
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| Nick at Play |
Well, I am up at 5:30, not because I want to be up. I was awake around 5:00, and then Nick jumped
in the shower at 5:30 so I decided to get up.
He has early soccer practice twice a week, at 6:00 in the high school
gym. He’s a busy boy. Anyways, the Internet is down, so I have had
to sit here in the living room, like the old days, watching Morning Joe with
out an Internet to surf. I feel like
it’s in the 1990’s! So I decided to
write my blog on a Word, then transfer it to my on line blog when we get back
on line.
Nick and Marlena played hooky yesterday, so we decided to
drive down to the Country Club Plaza, the posh, chic, shopping area about a twenty-minute
ride from home. We love going there,
just walking around, enjoying the Spanish or Mexican architecture. It has just about any upscale store you can
imagine and our first stop was the Apple Store, as the kids as well as adults
love it. One of the ‘geniuses’ answered
Evie’s question about transferring videos from her IPAD to an external hard drive. Easy once we realized her charger had a port
built in. Miraculously, we did not buy
anything though the new mini IPAD always tempts Evie. We then went to Williams Sonoma, looking for
Mama O’s Kim chee paste but the advisers new nothing about it. I told him about it and he found that it was
only available on line. Kitchen store
have so many gadgets that it’s hard not to buy one although a simple knife
could cut an apple as easily as an apple slicer, or an avocado slicer. And nothing seems cheap anymore except
me. We then browsed for cargo shorts for
Nick, at Urban Outfitters (to hip), Eddie Bauer (too preppy), American Eagle
(about right). Kids!
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| At The Plaza with Poseidon |
We also stopped at Sur La Table, where Evie found a clear
glass Duralex mixing bowl for making bread and sure also found the juice size
Duralex glasses which we are missing. We
loved Duralex when we lived in Turkey.
About two years ago, we found them again at Costco, bought three
different sizes and heard they were going out of business. It looks like they are back as the store had
many styles.
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| Diner Counter |
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| Enjoying a Milk Shake |
For lunch, we went to the seventy year old drive in and
diner here in Kansas City called Winsteads. It’s
on edge of the Plaza and looks like the old Howard Johnson’s both inside
(leather booths, a long counter) and out, low and modern. It was a nostalgic trip back in time, milk
shakes, frosty’s, and slim, slim burgers, with the works (They reminded me of
White Castle burgers), encouraging you to buy a double or triple. Nothing was very expensive yet the bill with
tip was still fifty bucks.
We got home around 2:00, tired as always from shopping,
especially Marlena. She has been reading
a biography of Anne Frank for school and she and Evie went upstairs to read but
she fell asleep. Tom came home around
5:30 and the three guys had a quick dinner of spaghetti and meatballs because
Nick had a soccer game in Kansas, in Overland Park and he wanted to eat
early.
Mary decided to go with us, so Evie stayed up with a tired
Marlena and we drove to Kansas for Nick’s game.
It was overcast and warm but fortunately, it did not rain. Nick’s team looked good, won 3-1 and Nick
just missed a goal in the second half, as the goalie just managed to jump and
tip his shot over the goal.
We came home and watched the NCAA finals and had a light
dinner of left over steak, mushrooms, and twice baked potatoes. The game was really high intensity, but the
athleticism of Louisville won out eventually.
It was a well played game, I thought, great plays, amazing shooting, not
stop action up and down the court. I
wished Michigan had won but thought that Louisville probably had more horses
and would win. And they did.
Today, we leave for the airport at noon, fly to Scottsdale,
arriving around 3:55, for ten days in the sun with Evie’s sister Claire
and her husband, Henry.
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