The Card Museum

I tried to find "cool" things to do along our way to keep it fun for the kids. The headquarters for Hallmark cards is in Kansas City and they have a free children's museum. It was so fun and a great break in all the driving.

The kids had endless crafting items at their disposal to set their little creative minds free. They could make cards, pictures, puppets, banners, flags and about a million other things. I think their favorite was this cardboard station where they drew a picture on a piece of cardboard and then got to slide it through this machine, turn the crank and watch their picture get cut into a puzzle.

Their other favorite, and mine, was the glow in the dark room. You go in and paint your little heart out and the lights make it all glow. They had SO much fun, they didn't want to leave.

We were pretty successful at keeping everyone sane! Getting the wiggles...for me and the kids :)

The hotel was always the favorite place to unwind!

Check out a close-up of that FACE!

The only real delay was when we left Nauvoo. The route that I had chosen caused a major delay!! No one around warned us that the recent flooding of the Mississippi River had caused several major roads to wash away. Then they felt no need to inform us of reliable alternatives. We spent the most ridiculous amount of time following the most random "detour" possible, adding hours to our trip. I wish we would have just followed my first instinct to just backtrack a little and head an entirely different way. Stupid Mapquest. Oh well we saw a very pretty rural part of Missouri that I hope to never revisit :)