Liberty Memorial

Before heading north we went into Kansas City to just have a peek at it. Independence is east of the downtown. It was a little butt if challenge negotiating interstates and parkways to finally get into the city. Tom needed to take a couple of deep breaths once we got in and we were parked.
I wanted to see a couple of places, but we knew we only had the morning so had to keep it short.
We decided to go to the WW1 Museum and Liberty memorial and Union Station. We knew we wouldn't have time for the museum but we did want to do the Liberty Tower, to get a great view of KC. To get Tower tickets you still went into the museum. It looked fabulous, like they all do!
In this one once your but your ticket you cross a wide see through to the floor below. The floor below is cover with 9,000 red poppies (fake) planted in a "field" of grey dust. Each of these poppies represent 1.000 service men that lost their lives. Very visual reminder of the loss of life.
Almost forget, Kansas City is also home to Hallmark Visitor Center! But it was closed on Sundays....I really would have enjoyed going in!
We went back out to the plaza and went up the Liberty Tower. It is about 13 stories high and you are able to get out and walk around a little landing to get the view of the city. Beautiful! I had wanted to see Union Station and because of time my compromise was to see it from the top of the tower! Not quite what I wanted, but hopefully will be back to KC to see this museum and the Money Museum. We both were disappointed, the MM is only open during the week, it's supposed to be a great tour.
Headed north again on I-35. We wanted to get to Madrid, Iowa to go on a bike ride in the morning. Found a cute little city park with electric on the out skirts of town.
Ended the day with a Red Cross dispatch event so we pretty much snacked for dinner.
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