Tuesday, April 20, 2010

A Little Tea Party

My camper made its way to a little tea party this past week. Here in Kansas City, it was held at the home of the local T-Bones Minor League Baseball Team, Community America Ballpark. The weather was fabulous.

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With the camper, I had a comfortable escape should I need it. I loaded up the bicycle and went up a few hours before it started and did some exploring around the Legends area. A few of the attractions there to check out are the Kansas Speedway (NASCAR runs a couple weekends a year), there’s a Cabela’s, a Nebraska Furniture Mart (went in and checked out the new 3D TV’s… gave me a headache, think I’ll pass for now), and tons of places to eat and shop.

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If you look close, you’ll see the Kansas Speedway across the street and the camper right near all the action.

 

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We had a few folks show up.  

 

The event went off without incident. There were a dozen or so people running for various local offices there that answered question and talked about what they wanted to do if elected. We had a few songs, a couple preachers talked. Obama’s cousin gave an interesting account of what the health care bill is doing to the health industry. Interesting point he made was how it created 16,000 new IRS jobs and not one single doctor job to take care of all these extra people.

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Local radio personality Darla Jaye was the Master of Ceremonies.

 

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One of the big events of the day was a salute and tribute to veterans. It was unbelievable, over 500 veterans filed out of the stands and onto the field for a tribute video and the National Anthem. When it was over, we all filed by a camera for a video of us. It lasted over and hour. Lots of tear all around by the time it was over. Some people get emotional over patriotic things, go figure.

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Electoral candidates speaking to the crowd.

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This was a cool truck that was hanging out by the entrance.

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Just a little flag waving going on.

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A few vendors selling buttons, stickers and t-shirts.

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This guy pretty much summed it up.

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All in all, a fun, feel good day of activities with a group of like minded people.

2 comments:

  1. I'm one of those people who get emotional over patriotic things! Sorry, just my emotional nature! I'm a proud American & was brought up to respect our flag & what it stands for.

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  2. Yep, I'm one of those emotional ones too.

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