Hello and almost bye from Kansas City !!! 4 hrs until I leave for airport to start my 30 hour journey for home.
This is my second time visiting Kansas city , both times for work.
Interesting fact about Kansas city is it lies between two states -Missouri and Kansas. I go to work and stay in different cities :)
I couldn't have asked for a better weather to visit...my cold weather loving body enjoyed it so much.
I got to see a blizzard with snow, super hot sunny days, winds upto 50mph and rain..all in 12 days. And its snowing as I write the blog.
This time I got to do one of my most favourite things - attend a craft meetup at a local craft cafe when travelling to a new country. I have done that before twice in past, I just realised may be I didn't share about it.
Last time I visited Kansas city , I came with colleagues so didn't think of doing my hobby stuff...however this time I started looking up yarn /craft stores, meetups a month in advance.
I asked my one and only local friend if she would like to attend a meetup, she agreed. So last Saturday we drove to this quaint yarn store who hosts social hours regularly. The day I went there, there was a trunk show.
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| My knitting |
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| Yarns by Yarniculture |
To my surprise , it was a big turn out. We almost ran out of space to sit. 20 + people sat in this beautiful cafe knitting, crocheting , chatting for 2 hours. Oh I loved it!!!
I have talked about attending meetups during my travels, and people have told me its a novel idea.. most people don't even think of that. My friend was surprised to know how many craft stores I knew her city.
After the meetup , we went for lunch...I will cover that in my next post..
Wish me luck for a long journey home.
A yarn shop! I've only walked into one, back when I returned to crochet and was crocheting twin size afghans for all my nieces and nephews, 6(!), and there was a group of about 3 or 4. They didn't say a word to me, so I looked around and left. I really enjoyed crocheting for about 18 months, but had to quit, because I'd break out in bad hives every time I worked on a project. So, I'm back into cross stitch again after a 20 year hiatus and loving it! Thanks for the travel blog! Have a great day!
ReplyDeleteThis looks like such a fun trip! I've never gone to a meetup before, but now you're making me think that I should try to make some time to go to up. Maybe once work slows down and I can make more time to start up on my crafts again. I can't wait to see what's next!
ReplyDeleteOh, that is such a fun idea, doing a meetup while traveling! I kind of miss being able to travel for work.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you enjoy cold and snow because it certainly looks like you got it in Kansas City. So nice to combine work with crafty fun when you travel. I've never been to that part of the U.S. Hope you had a safe trip home--can't imagine traveling for that many hours!
ReplyDeleteNice to know that you enjoyed your time there and the weather. :)
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