I have been taking the kids to a drop-in ninja gym in Kearney for a few weeks, the same gym where a friend of mine told me she takes her kids to a home school gym class. I was told today was the first day for the year, so we rushed out the door early this morning to drive the 35 minutes to get there. When we arrived, the doors were open, but there was no one inside. It was bizarre. It's a very large gymnastics gym full of equipment, the front desk computer was turned on, but after calling and calling for someone and waiting for 10 minutes or so, we gave up. I was frustrated, and I felt like going home now would just be a waste of the hour+ of driving time. So I asked the kids if they wanted to keep heading south and go to Science City, the Kansas City science museum where we have a membership. They were excited and we decided to turn the day into a field trip. After driving another 30 minutes, parking, and walking through the large Union Station building to the science museum we found out it was closed for cleaning! We couldn't believe it, what a weird coincidence! We decided today must be National Closed Day and no one had told us. Lucky for us, the gift shop was open, so we stayed for an hour or so to look around.
After that, we decided to try the KC Central Library. It's famous for being decorated with building-sized books on the exterior, but we've never been.
It is a cool looking building, but after taking some pictures out front we realized that the book-clad building is not actually the library, but a giant parking garage and we didn't know how to find the actual library. Not to mention, the road beside the parking garage was actually closed. Closed Day continued!
We soon found the library just a little further down the street and had a wonderful time there. The children's section there might be the best I've ever seen. It was lots of fun.
After the library we headed to Costco for lunch (which was thankfully NOT closed) and then drove the long drive home. Closed Day started out frustratingly but was fantastic in the end.
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