The My Day In Pictures articles are to keep friends and family updated on what is going on with my life. It was instituted at the request and for the benefit of one of my favorite people in the world, one of my aunts who is a retired telephone operator and lives a few hours away from me.
The #1 rated foodie stop in Denver, Colorado is the famous Little Man Ice Cream. Housed in a giant replica creamery urn, the ice cream is made in small batches and with natural ingredients. For every scoop of ice cream you buy, they donate a scoop of rice to impoverished nations. They have a handful…
After settling into the hotel, we decided to head over to the Denver Aquarium to check out the wildlife. There is some amazing genetic diversity on this planet. I took out my cell phone and snapped some video and pictures. This is why one of the main five categories of grants to which the Kennon…
It has taken more than 600 miles, but we are finally in Denver. I’m staying at the Ritz Carlton in downtown because it is close to everything. I was responsible for having the rooms booked this time around so I wanted to make sure my mom and grandmother were comfortable, had enough room of their…
I, my mom, my grandmother, and Aaron are taking a very long weekend. Everyone else is back at home and the four of us are doing something unusual: We are driving, round-trip, from Kansas City to Denver to Santa Fe and back in a period of only five or six days. Right now, I am going…
Some friends, the husband, and I went out to dinner tonight at a place in Smithville, Missouri, near Kansas City, that was rated very highly by Zagat (29 out of 30). The entire experience typically takes 2-3 hours and it was well worth it. The restaurant is run by a husband-and-wife team, who converted the old…
We’re finishing with the home upgrades, I need to run to the airport to pick up my brother … a lot of good things are happening!
Picture it: I had to do a favor for my brother. Aaron goes with me. We walk into Barnes & Noble after said favor is complete. As I make my way through the aisles on the upper level, I approach a near empty table with an Angry Bird plush ceremoniously placed in the center. Right over the opening to the lower floor. It took every ounce of my not inconsiderable self-control not to pick it up, yell the Angry Birds sound, and hurl it over the abyss.
The atmosphere at the Country Club Plaza feels like a celebration tonight because the best baseball players in the country are staying at The Intercontinental for the 2012 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The fountains have been dyed blue, in honor (we presume) of the hometown Kansas City Royals, it looks like there is going to…
I’m in for a night of crunching financials on spreadsheets to try and figure out if a potential opportunity we came to Texas to examine is feasible or wise at various price ranges. It’s going to be a long night, so everyone ordered up milk and cookies to sustain us until the wee hours of…
I am in a small city in Texas on business. I need to stop by several of the cities here to accomplish various things. As of this moment, I’m in Waco. We were in Fort Worth this afternoon and Oklahoma City this morning. Tomorrow, I’m heading to Dallas for a few days for an unrelated…
