This year we spent Thanksgiving in Indiana visiting family and meeting our new great nephew. Great time with the family! We took the week off and drove from Denver to Kansas City, MO through Nashville, TN and then up to Louisville, KY. Our past trips to Indiana we never plan goof off time, but this time I made sure to build in quality time with the cameras.
Kansas City was amazing! I had a few stops planned for our two night stay and we hit them all except for one. Downtown was a fun shoot, lots of cool architecture and street art. Street art is our new fascination, probably because we have been doing a fair amount of city shooting lately. It was sunny and not too cold although I still wore a sweatshirt and a 32 degree jacket, beanie and gloves, but not too cold. Right. We started early in the morning to shoot the Kaufman Convention Center. What an amazing building. The light was hitting it just right and we spent quite a while there before meandering the streets of downtown.
Camera: FujiFilm XT3
After shooting the Kaufman Center we took the street car down to the City Market area. Kansas City has a free street car that runs from the City Market to Union Station which made it easy to get around. The City Market was nothing to write home about, most of the shops were closed. We had a cafe Cubano and then were gravitated to a shady area with an abandon building. We just go where the moment takes us, not really thinking about where we are. Walking down the hill near the bridge, we were cautious as we were in an area where you would expect to find derelicts and the like but there were none. Unbelievable! It was relatively clean as well. Needless to say we didn't linger, snapped a few shots and headed back up the hill. We caught the street car and headed to the main event - Union Station.
Union Station was the main event for our Kansas City exploration day because they had a Genghis Kahn exhibit. We walked into the side door of Union Station and through a long hallway adorned with vintage photos of Kansas City and finally reached an enormous room. This place was gigantic and was decorated in the Christmas spirit. In the background we could hear singing. Off the main gallery was a long huge room filled with people and a stage with children dancing and singing Christmas tunes. I could not believe how big this place was, bigger than the Union Station in St. Louis and well, Denver cannot compare. Union Station in Denver is really small. I wasn't expecting this!
The Genghis Kahn exhibit was fantastic! They did a really good job with the display. The more we travel the more we are starting to appreciate museums of all kinds. The artifacts were in excellent condition and the craftsmanship was remarkable. So glad we made this a priority.
Opposite of Union Station is a World War II Monument up on a hill. Erich gave me a hard time as usual "What is it with you and stairs?", he tells me as we climb and climb for the best view of the Kansas City skyline. "Totally worth it, right?", I tell him. We stayed up there until dark. Duh, we didn't have the tripods with us, they were in the car. Luckily there was a railing on the monument where we could set the cameras and get some cool night shots.
On to Nashville!
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