A couple of weeks ago when we went to
Mahaffie Farm, we picked up a little passport of places to visit in the Kansas City area. At each place you need to answer a question for your booklet and you get a stamp for your passport. This Friday we were in Kansas City to pick up Hubby from a long trip, so we grabbed the closest one to where we were going to be -
the Trailside Center. We were all a little edgy from Hubby being gone, so I am glad it wasn't much, but it thrilled the kids to no end to snag one of their passport stamps!
We got to the Trailside Center in the early afternoon and we were the first "customers" of the day (they'd been open since about 10am) and the volunteer gals were thrilled we were there. Our question for the passport was "why is the pioneer woman carrying flowers" and the gal gave an explanation of pioneer life and showed the kids some of the artifacts they had on display.
Shorty was not interested, so he told me all about this map and drew a route for us to take.
The Trailside Center is at the confluence of the California, Oregon and Santa Fe Trails. It is essentially a tourism center for that area. They have some interesting local maps, and a small amount of pioneer artifacts, and an interesting Civil War display with re-enactment uniforms and equipment.
The map that caught my eye was the one for the Battle of Westport. I've been wanting to get to that one for a while - its free and would fit right in to what we had been learning. The problem being - its right next to the Kansas City Zoo which is a day trip for us in itself. I've been considering blindfolding the kids for the Battle of Westport trip...
The older kiddos had a good time with the historical nature of this stop. What thrilled them though was since it was a tourism center, was to pick out brochures and dream about future field trips! That was worth the stop in itself :)
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