Kansas City

Tonight Courtney, Shannon and I went to First Fridays in the Crossroads District. We started out at Grinders ended up in Westport at Blaney's, Kelly's and Firefly.

Grinders was awesome. I loved the decor, the people and the food. I had a pastrami sandwich. Now I'm mad at myself for not having a pastrami sandwich my entire 50 years thus far. I've missed out on something!! The salad was great too. It had two medallions of fried goat cheese, spring salad, red onions, walnuts and sun dried tomato . . . I loved them both. I'll definitely go back as often as possible. I loved the decor and the people.

Blaney's was cool. There was a blues band playing and the drinks were good. I haven't mentioned the weather yet. Absolutely perfect weather. I think we had a high of 70 today and our night was as good as it gets.

Kelly's was fun. We sat and had one drink and talked and laughed and planned our Vegas trip. Shannon came up with a great idea of writing down all of our ideas and drawing them out and doing them one by one. Courtney came up with the idea of chinese checkers. Now, I had asked what the whole deal was about chinese checkers because I thought it was a boring game. Well, Miss Courtney said that we should go to a chinese restaurant and bring our checkers. I said, Chinese checkers? NO, we'll play checkers in a chinese restaurant. Pretty cool.

Firefly was an accidental find. I had read the review in the Pitch so I knew it was somewhere in Kansas City. I just didn't know where. Courtney had seen the sign pointing out a Fortune Teller. We were debating the merits of visiting her when I stumbled on a paper sign on a door leading down this long hall. I was sooooo excited I just told the girls to follow me and we walked into the neatest place - so comfortable. I had a French something or other. The reason I chose it was the absinthe. I can't say that I liked the drink but I can say that I've finally drunk absinthe!