I didn’t realize that The Raphael had a late check-in time (I spepcified 11:00 AM on my order when I did my reservations through the Kansas City tourism website) so we had a lot of time to burn when we got here on Saturday. First thing on our list was lunch at Kona Grill, a restaurant recommended by my friend Ashley for its excellent sushi. She was right! It’s so awesome that we are going there again on Monday before returning to Wichita. I mean, even the best sushi place we know of and frequent in Wichita cannot complete with the sushi at Kona. Yes, it’s that good so you really must try it.<\/p>\n
Our room wasn’t ready yet so we did lots of shopping (Brian bought a pair of Docs sandals at Steve’s and I got some clothes from A&F, even though we have our own A&F in Wichita now it’s about one for the few places that I can afford to buy stuff at here because when we went into BCBG and Anthropology I found some things that I liked but the items cost much more than I wanted to spend), window shopping, took a whole bunch of pictures, ate some ice cream and had some Starbucks. We got finally got our room and the first thing on the agenda was take a nap because we were so pooped from all the walking around that we did.<\/p>\n
We had dinner at reVerse in hopes of doing some dancing afterwards. The food wasn’t that great exept for the chicken on a stick appetizer thing that we ordered. Brian had chicken and mashed potatos for his entree. The chicken was good but nothing spectacular. After you try the rotiserie chicken at Red Rock Canyon Grill, nothing really compares. The mashed potatos were really flavorful though. Brian, who never eats his mashed potatos at Red Rock, even liked it. So between reVerse and Red Rock you can get the best chicken and potato entree. LOL! I had tilapia. They prepared it in a breaded, almond encrusted fashion. It was different and new but not that good. I wish that it would’ve been grilled like the chicken satay appetizers that we had. Perhaps I should suggest that next time.<\/p>\n
Anyway, we went down to the Red Room but it was still too early so there asn’t anyone there. We decided to do a carriage ride around the plaza and then return to see what it was like later in the evening. The carriage ride was brief and cost us $40 with the $7 tip that Brian gave to the carriage driver (horseman? coachman? not quite sure what they are called). After that we walked by the river and enjoyed the evening. We never did return to the Red Room because Brian and I agreed that it didn’t look too promising. Instead we went back to our hotel room (which is just a short distance away – Brian really liked the fact that we could just walk everywhere but was disappointed that there was no pool so I think we will try one of the bigger hotels next time) and watched Along Came Polly before bed (which incidentally cost us another $10).<\/p>\n
I guess this is it for today or the rest of the weekend of that matter. Our room service (breaksfast) just arrived and by the time we return to our room after today’s activities we will no longer have our overpiced internet access.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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