Kansas City, Stadiums and Truman

Hi Kahunas, Today I got my first look at Kansas City Missouri. My favorite thing to do, even more than travel is to read. I went to the library here and saw huge books. They were all over the library on the outside. Can you see me in the pictures? I look very little. Do you think Miss Cavanaugh could hold up these books to read to you? I saw one of my favorite stories about a pig and a spider. Do any of you know that story?
I walked around Kansas City and went to the Garment District. This is a place where they make lots of clothes. They had a funny thing to celebrate all the people making clothes. It was a button and a needle. Do any of you have buttons on your clothes? Look at the little holes where the needle and thread goes though. Now look at the picture of me. Isn't that a big button.
I went next to tour another baseball stadium. Many big cities have stadiums and their own baseball team. This one was called The Kansas City Royals. When I went inside, I told the I was from California and I liked the San Francisco Giants but they still let me go on the tour. I had to wear a wrist band to prove that I had paid for my ticket.  I sat in the seats from the old stadium. I saw lots of Bobble Heads but they were behind glass so I could not make their heads bobble. I went to the press box again where the reporters sit. I played with the microphones. Down below the windows is a little lock. If they want the windows to disappear, they unlock that lock and the windows go down inside the walls. The tour guide showed me dents in the wall where balls came through when the windows were down. I don't think I would like to be sitting there if that happened. I went down to the visitors locker room. It was very big. The I went to the dugout and sat there and pretended I was a ball player waiting for my turn to get a home run. I went back out to the parking lot because Cmor was the only one there and he was lonely.

The last thing I did that day was visit The Truman library and museum. Truman was another of our Presidents. A presidents library is not like the library in your school. His is kind of like a giant storage locker or attic. All kinds of things besides books are kept there. I did see books, but there were cars that he used and clothes and dishes and pictures of when he was president and many of his important papers. People can go there and study him and learn all about what he did when he was president. In the middle of the building is a beautiful garden and that is where President Truman is buried. I found pictures of him with his family and also a big one that showed what he looked like when he was growing up, until he was old. I found a model of the house he lived in before and after he was president. I saw a copy of the Oval Office in the White House. All presidents work in the Oval Office. What shape is your classroom? What shape do you think the presidents office is? I found a statue of an eagle. It made me think of your school. Then I drove to the real house that I saw the model of.  Another busy day and a tired monkey. Aloha from Junior.