Kansas City by Night - and a Visit with Dracula

Liberty Memorial at the WWII Museum in Kansas City

We settled down for a bit at sundown, by the WWII Museum. I've received texts, every other day

Yeah, that's right bitches, I got you for free now! 

from AT&T that I'd overused my data and then they'd charge me $15 for like a whole gig of data. I was about $45 in the hole cash wise. I whined about it to William. He listened, then got on my phone with AT&T and just like that, I got my $45 back, I was on unlimited data and I was getting HBO for free. HELLO! Is my neph awesome or what? I get too worn down to argue for myself and it was nice having someone go to bat for me. Thanks William!

One of a pair of sphinx on top of the war museum
The Sphinx hides from the horrors of WWII

Our BBQ lunch was long gone in our stomachs, so we decided to hit Yelp. We chose La Bodega - a Spanish Tapas Restaurant for dinner. Arriving at the height of the dinner service, an above and beyond kind waitress seated us at a table that was reserved for someone else at 7PM. The half hour was enough time for us to order and devour a dinner of Paella Valencia, Pan Plano con Salmon Ahumado (goat cheese, smoked salmon, capers, chives & balsamic glaze on flat bread) and big fat mushrooms thingies on a fancy sauce. Hey! There's plenty of  El Spanish chow & room at the table, so would you care to join us - via the magic of pieced together 'live' iPhone pix.

Yum! That was an excellent meal. Earlier in the day William looked at what Kansas City has for night time entertainment and he found something unique. So dinner finished, we drove through colorful night time Kansas City streets.

 Now check out, below, our entertainment site - a mall!  Does it look like a mall to you? It was like a Mall on Mars. Big, shiny and loads of parking.

Mall? Yes, a Mall!

We looked down on the orchestra from
our comfy chairs - yes, COMFY CHAIRS!

And what was in this mind blowing Mall? Well, for me anyway. A full sized theater at which there was a live stage Musical, and in the venue we had 'Music Heritage reserve tickets for, was - Nosferatu.

Why were we attending a 1922 Silent Movie? Because this performance came with a live Jazz ensemble playing music written to accompany Nosferatu. Geeze, I'd have thought that would be too cool for Kansas City but nope. Kansas City is beyond cool.

Seeing Nosferatu for the first time, with live music was amazing. It is easy to imagine how in 1922, the movie would have scared the crap out if its audience - even in 2017 the villain vampire Nosferatu is beyond creepy. I had wondered if I could sit still for 'live' performance of Nosferatu which was like being transported back nearly 100 years.

Here are about 2 and a half minutes of Nosferatu (SPOILERS!) so you can listen to all that jazz.

Yikes - if I learned nothing about my paternal grandfather from this brief stay in Kansas City is that KC is no po-dunk town. I believe the locals would like to keep the wonder of KC as their own private paradise. The secret is that Kansas City is not the little cow town many think it to be.

UPDATE: Talk about NOT FAIR! Just now at every location but for mine,  tickets can be purchased to see Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban WITH a live orchestra playing John William's score. I am overcome with envy - just shoot me now.