Hosted Royally by Kansas City

Mennonite Church USA will have its 2015 Biennial Assembly in Kansas City. As part of the great package they offered us to come here, they offered to host Board meetings for us between now and then. They have incredibly gracious to us, especially with our hotel room rates. Yesterday they sponsored one of our breaks -- it was more like a light lunch. They had platters of fresh vegetables with homemade hummus as well as all kinds of fresh fruit.

Today the KC Chamber of Commerce treated us to Kansas City Barbecue for lunch. After a fresh green salad and rolls, we were served plates with barbecued beef brisket, pulled pork and chicken along with fingerling potatoes and green beans. It was way more than most of us could eat! AND it was really good!

Then they served a slice of chocolate cake with reaspberries -- so good.

 



 

We had a visit from a President Truman impersonator who came to tell us about all of the things available to do in Kansas City and nearby Independence. (I think the Chamber not only wants us here in 2015, but was trying hard to convince us we should come back in 2017 as well!)

 

We've had a good two days of meetings so far. We'll meet until early afternoon tomorrow, then I'll catch a flight back to Spokane by way of Denver on United. I think I get back into Spokane at 8:20 tomorrow evening. We'll be staying at Ponderosa Falls for a couple of days then heading back to the ranch until after the Mennonite Country Auction on October 6th.