Our Baseball Stadium Journey: Kansas City Royals - Part Two

We went BACK to Kansas City to finish our quest. It was a really wonderful trip. First, we had the best barbecue we've ever had in our lives at Q39 in Kansas City. The waiter there was absolutely one of the kindest, most polite, most adorable people we have ever met. Aliyah said he just needed to be a few years younger and she would take him home.

Mmmmmm... Barbecue.

The weather for game attempt #2 could not have been more different than our first visit. It was in the low 70s, sunny and breezy - gorgeous! Tailgating is a THING in Kansas City. This is a city that takes its barbecue seriously. There were tons of cars, vans and trailers with oodles of barbecue going. It was a pretty delicious smell heading into the stadium.

The first place we always go is to Guest Services to get a free First Game certificate for the kids. We told the Guest Services people about our quest and one of the guys said to wait and that he had a gift for us. He came back and gave us a really lovely picture frame that said Royals on it. He said, "I thought you could take a picture in the stadium and then frame the picture of your last game in your quest." How cool is that! And that it how everyone was at the stadium. They were so friendly and warm and welcoming. I loved it!

There's a really nice museum inside the stadium. It tells the history of the team, the area, players and of baseball itself. It was really cool. They also had a really nice kids area with zip lining, base running, hitting, etc.

We have been to every stadium in the country and I have never seen as many people wearing team gear as I did in Kansas City. EVERYONE was wearing Royals gear. I don't know if it's because there's not much competition teamwise in that area or if people are just that devoted, but it was a sea of blue.

There was some good eating at Kansas City. Aliyah had a great hot dog and chocolate drizzled strawberries on a stick. Lee had pork tenderloin. Owen got pulled pork with mac and cheese. I had an enormous pretzel and really amazing ice cream from the Belfonte Ice Cream stand.