Kansas City Here We Come!

Beth's cheerleading team came second in the local finals competition which meant that she qualified for the regional finals. These were held just outside Kansas City, which is about four hours away from St Louis. The competition started at 8:00am on the Saturday morning so we had to be there the night before. We managed to get a good rate at a local hotel where some of Beth's friends were staying as well, so we thought that we would make a weekend of it & drive home on the Sunday.

We left at about 4pm on the Friday night & stopped off for some early tea in a local McDonalds. We noticed that there were four or five helicopters flying around the restaurant which was due to a really bad accident on the nearby highway. The traffic jams seemed to be a bit of a feature of the journey with it taking about an hour & a half just to get away from the St Louis area.

We briefly stopped at a rest area for a stretch. These are completely different to UK motorway service areas. There were some toilets, a couple of vending machines & a landscaped grass/picnic area - very nice!

We eventually got to the hotel at about 10pm. By the time we had checked in the pool had closed so Beth wasn't happy as she really wanted to go swimming before her competition. She really liked our room & the fact that she had a bed to herself, but getting to sleep was a problem as she was so excited about the next day.