Never have we seen so many anti-abortion road signs and more dead butterflies on the windshield.
Our plan for the day was to get to Kansas City, MO by night and eat some bbq before heading to sleep. But we got a late start to our day as we toured the Colorado state capitol. As we walked up, Alex decided to start picking the abundant little apples (Manzanitas?) off of the trees surrounding the capitol and I was afraid that we were going to get in trouble as he sampled unripe cranberries too.
Some highlights from the tour: we had an Armenian tour guide who midway through, stopped and asked Alex what his last name was because he could tell he’s Armenian by looking at him. We learned all about the materials that Coloradoans had used to make the capitol including the rose onyx which is found nowhere else because they used it all up in the capitol construction (and also happens to have secret dirty patterns if you look closely)! We also went up to the dome that is pretty spectacular and got views of the Rockies and the Denver skyline. Lastly, the Armenian tour guide told us the story of the old caretaker of the capitol. This caretaker didn’t believe in paper money so he exchanged all his savings into silver coins. He had so much faith in the building that he kept all his savings in the tunnels beneath the capitol and when he died they tried to go down there to find this treasure stash but they only found two skulls. He told us that sometimes you’d feel the caretaker’s ghost if you tried to reach down through an opening into the floor below us trying to seek out the treasure. He then encouraged us to reach out and close our eyes and try to reach for the stash and as we had our eyes closed, he went over to an older woman and brushed her hand. She shrieked and jumped back as did the tour guide because no one had ever reacted like that. The rest of the group was thoroughly amused.
After our tour, we started driving towards KCMO and for lunch we stopped at an ancient Safeway to pick up some deli foods. This place looked like it hasn’t changed since the 50s. We did have a very filling lunch though. But the drive was still long and boring only made slightly better by the pro life signs and the anti porn signs. “Jesus heals and saves. Pornography destroys and enslaves.” These were plastered all over billboards along the interstate right next in front of strip clubs' billboards! Alex also didn’t indulge me with a stop at the Oz museum even though I would never again get the chance to drive through KS!
The 9 ½ hr drive became so tedious that we gave up on going to KCMO for the night and instead spent it in Lawrence, KS, home of the Jayhawks. Rock! Chalk! Jayhawks! KU! We got in at 10:30 and most of the restaurants and bars had stopped serving food so we had some non-memorable Japanese on Massachusetts Ave. This was the main street and had pretty cool shops and restaurants: had they been open though! :(
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