Josh and Becca Thrap and Family

I am in Kansas City and there are several things that I would like to point out. I came on Thursday morning and went directly to where I needed to go (Mapquest is a blessing) after my first meeting I had a lunch provided by the trainers. It was fancy vegtables (which I like, but they were all to big, Baseball bat sized zuchini, so the flavor was off), Meat (which ended up being meatloafs), mashed potatoes and gravy and chicken and noodles. The last two items were the only palatable thing for me. They had us in a banquet hall with napkin wrapped silverware, multiple forks the whole bit. Did I mention this is a Construction Conference. Maybe I am an Iowa contractor and we are different, but I like simple, fancy tasted like crap! Also at this convention they have 16 different kinds of Coffees, and hot water to make your own hot chocolate. Throw me a fricken bone here!!! They gave us a snack on Thursday afternoon. German Chocolate Brownies and Rasberries. The best thing yet. The rasberries were so big I grabed more of them than I did of anything else. The meeting got over at 5:00 so I went to the Hotel. Hotels are just expensive. $58.00 for one night in a Red Roof Inn and they wanted to charge me for wireless internet and the TV had no AV connections so I couldn’t play GAMECUBE! I then wanted to go eat. I have never been to Ruth’s Chris and Sean Hannitty rants about them all of the time so I thought I would find it. It took me 30 minutes to find it. I arrived in jeans not knowing what to expect and it was probably the fanciest place I have ever eaten. They sat me down and handed me a menu. I look for meals and they have none. You order allecart (sp?) which would be fine if a side of mashed potatoes wasn’t $8.00!!! I tried a steak and was glad that it a least was filling. I was the only one alone and that was sad and made me wish I had money and time to spend with my wife and could feel comfortable in a place like that, but I know if I had money I would still take my wife to Outback and get a meal for $14.00 instead of two sides for $16.00!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t think I could ever or would ever want to feel comfortable spending that kind of money on dinner. I can cook! I felt a little better when I saw several couples come in wearing torn jean shorts!. I left the restaurant thinking it should be easy to get back, but alas One Way Streets are my down fall and without Map Quest printouts I was lost. It took me 1 hr and 25 minutes to find my way back to the hotel! I stopped and asked directions and the lady at Walgreens told me that East was North. That really got me screwed up!!! Once I figured out she had been wrong and finally got out of residential neighborhoods I found my way back. Did I mention I hate big Cities!!! I laid down at 9:00 and decided to watch some television. I watched Shark, Good show, and then flipped through the channels. Little to my knowledge that Premium Channels meant porn after 10:00. I quickly shot past this, appalled that this was coming into my room and I didn’t even ask for it. I ended up finding the Island with “Obi-Wan” Ewan McGeggor and Scarlet Johansen. I watched that untill 11:00 and went to bed. My body woke me at 4:00 to change Elena and she was not there so I went back to bed till the wakeup call. I watched Saved by the Bell and got ready for another day of conferences. We will see what today brings. Hopefully not fancy food.