Ted Starts to Experience KC

Kansas City, MO. The climax of Ted's trip. Ted went on his little half-country adventure to get to KC. In Kansas City, Jenny, Ted's chaperon, and B&T, Jenny's parents run the Job Interview Competition for SkillsUSA, an international job skills competition organization for high school and college students of all trades.


Here is Ted checking in before the competition begins:

Ted helps Jenny put contestants in the right order for competition and sets up the individual rooms for them:

After everything is set up for the official start to the competition tomorrow, Ted visits the show floor where competitions like Masonry, Diesel Truck Repair, Welding, AutoCAD, Hair Styling, Nail Artistry, and more are held.

Ted visits the Quaff Bar and Grill for some lunch. This restaurant is located in what once was both the garment district and the financial district of Kansas City, MO.

You can still see the safe in the wall!

Ted visited the historic St. Mary's Church:

 This historical marker reads: "Father Donnelly came to Jackson County in 1845 to serve zealously for thirty five years as frontier pastor at St. Mary's Church, Independence and Immaculate Conception Church, Kansas City. On this site of the first church property purchased in Kansas City he replaced the log church with the original Immaculate Conception Church in 1856. He was universally respected as a religious and civic leader, and as a friend to all, regardless of creed or color."

Ted only got this close to a KC Royals game. Historically, whenever a member of our family attends a Royals game, they lose. Although this could be attributed to their habit of losing almost every game anyway. Who knows?

Ted got to visit a Bass Pro Shop. There are no Bass Pro Shops on the West Coast so the last time we visited one we loaded up on great fishing gear to being home to our dad.

For dinner Ted hit one of his favorite restaurants: The Salty Iguana. You can read the Iguana's tale below.

Bare with me as I play catch-up! Ted is having so much fun, I am receiving up to 15 photos a day! Coming up next: Ted goes to WORLDS OF FUN!