Why is the KS Legislature delaying its decision on this? This would be a wonderful Public Transportation Plan, that would hopefully lessen the dependence on cars, as well as hopefully LESSENING THIS STUPID KS/MO DIVIDE THAT THE KANSAS CITY METRO ISN'T HELPING WITH!!!! (I'm not adament about ending the divide...no, not at all!) Haha.

This weekend was fun overall. Friday night we went to Ydialay's for the evening. It consisted of hanging out, watching McGyver, Firefly and The Girl Next Door. We also went to the skate park and to the park and played on playground equipment and jumped off of a big turtle thingy. Saturday night kinda sucked, mostly because I had to work on my OHP, which caused me to be late to the yard game event which went bust, no offense. Tonight I went and worked on an English project with Ryan. It was fun, and we finished. I am NOT looking forward to school starting again. Prom is this weekend...oh boy! I'm excited...but I'm hoping the dance isn't lame, seeing that I'm spending $60, minus dinner, for the dance. If it is, at least I'll be with friends.

Spring Is Here

So, officially Kansas City has this wierd split thing that pushes a lot of weather to our north and south. It's kind of frustrating because I like the thunderstorms that bring really strong straight-line winds! I also like big snowstorms. Anyway, I don't have much homework tonight, so I had some fun with the camera and took pics of my mom's new car and our gardens with the blooming flowers. Enjoy.

Choir Trip to Winter Park, CO 'twas fun! Sorry, no pics because I didn't take our family's camera. I really liked skiing, surprisingly, and will definitely go skiing again with friends or whatnot. The town of Winter Park is definitely a BORING-ASS TOWN. The Ski Resort towns that I'm used to, ie, Ruidoso, have a bajilion things to do. Winter Park had exactly .001 things to do. Neways, I am hoping this weekend will be filled with friend stuff!

Prairie Village News

I just read this in the Neighborhood News section of the Kansas City Star. This will be very good for Prairie Village and Mission Hills and will provide a really nice gateway into each city. Enjoy.

Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix, here I am! :-D It is really nice here. We're all going to take naps because we got up at 4:30am to get on a 6:55am flight out of KC. Joyous fun. I am having a great time. Today we drove around and walked around Downtown Scottsdale. It was very neat. I will post some pics that I have taken so far. More to come as the weekend/week goes.


Pictures from plane approaching Phoenix

Driving Around


Park/Walkway along one of the canals

Auto Show!

The Auto Show '06 was sweet. I LOVE VW JETTAs!!!!!! Here are some pics from the Auto Show.

AUTO SHOW!!!

The Auto Show '06 was sweet. I LOVE VW JETTAs!!!!!! Here are some pics from the Auto Show.

Prairie Village Future City Plans

I have discovered some great plans that Prairie Village has introduced in order to make Prairie Village a better, even though it's great now, place to live. Here are some ideas:

• Narrowing traffic lanes
• Providing additional green space with a median or parkway along the sidewalk
• Developing a program to plant new or replace street trees with ones more in scale with the surrounding buildings and ones that would not interfere with overhead utility lines
• Use paved areas currently restricted from traffic for green space

75th Street Corridor (between State Line & Nall):


^Current 75th Corridor, just East of Mission^


^Idea for new 75th corridor, just East of Mission^


^Current 75th Corridor @ Roe^


^Idea for new 75th Corridor @ Roe^



These ideas would narrow the lanes, but would add landscaping where traffic is not allowed (where there is yellow paint is in the center of the roadway).

More to come.

Pkwy/Blvd Update & Where Has The Snow Gone????

They are putting dark poles up along Parkways and Boulevards. Well, at least the control boxes along Ward Pkwy are dark! Yesss! This is a good sign! More to come as more info is released! :-D

Here was the best day of this school year. See if you can figure out why. Haha.