Thursday, July 5th – Day 25 – Kansas City to Omaha

Woke up at 830 and said “No way. I'm sleeping in today!” So I went back to bed until about noon. Kalie had to go to work, so Matt and I hung out around the house for a bit, I did some laundry, ate some leftover BBQ, and we watched the movie “Traitor” with Don Cheadle and had a pretty lazy day. About 3ish, we went to the Crossroads Art District and walked around. We saw some cool art, as it was the day before First Friday, which is when all the new show openings happen, and also it is All-Star week, and the the All-Star game and festivities are all in KC this year. We had a beer at a gay burger joint and bought some artisan chocolates at Christopher Elbow, then went home to meet Kalie. We arrived at the same time, got ready and went out to dinner at Blue Stem, a fancy place I've wanted to eat at for awhile. It did not disappoint, everything was fantastic! Hey brought out a full 1 and a half extra courses to treat us and afterward there were about 12 extra little desserts too! Every component was well executed. We were shown the kitchen and thanked the chefs, then we headed back home. I planned on driving back to Omaha immediately, but Matt turned on a Johnny Carson documentary and I stayed another 2 hours to watch that. I finally did leave, had a long, boring drive and arrived home about 1am.