As you know, my parent’s came to visit Marv and I last week. My parents have visited us many a time in Kansas City, but this time my Mom really wanted to go to the Steamboat Arabia Museum, a popular tourist attraction which Marv and I had not visited before. Kind of crazy to think that we’ve lived here for 5 years and have gone to the Farmer’s Market in front of the Museum probably 50 times, but never once did we think about visiting the museum.  So like the wonderful children that we are, we decided to take my parents there for Mother’s Day!  Here our story begins…

We began the morning by strolling through the main drag of City Market…

we were greeted by a friendly fruit and veggie salesman…

saw a solemn and sweet as honey boy playing with his balloon animal…

our ears pined for sweet sounds…

we biked our way through a flower garden…

and cooled off with some scrumptious bubble tea…

and refreshing fro-yo (ignore the baskin robbins sign)

and just really had a chirpy time.

Then we time traveled back to September 5, 1856, where we were set to board the majestic Steamboat Arabia adventure…

where the boat was filled with whiskey (so they say) and china…

keys, buttons, apparel galore…

until pow!  the boat hit this little snag and brought all of these treasures down into the missouri river (of which these treasures were rediscovered in 1988 by a team of researchers)…

but, don’t worry, all of the passengers survived (except for a poor mule) and they are still years of restoration to be had!

Hope you enjoyed my picture story and history lesson! 🙂  All pictures were put through rollip classic effect #1.

I’ve also linked up my favorite photo from this set to Sweet Shot Tuesdays, you’ll have to click the link to find out which one!  Make sure to link up your own photos as well!  And by the way, I met my first blogger friend in real life this past weekend and it was AWESOME SAUCE, and she just happens to have 3 handsome boybarians.  🙂