August 14, 2014 – Out & About

Missouri River, Leavenworth prison, Geocaching and some cooking.

Let us leave the Fort and go to Leavenworth proper. Above, you can see that Leavenworth is the first city of Kansas. Below, the bridge that gets us across the Missouri River.

Here we are in Riverfront Park where Lewis and Clark traveled so many years ago.

Information about Leavenworth.

Under the bridge.

L. looking for something to eat.

E. looking cute. I learned how to put children in car seats on this trip.

We’ve seen the old DB (disciplinary barracks) on post and I’ve seen the new DB. But what about Leavenworth Prison? Here it is! Looking quite nice with a silver dome on top.

Just to be clear, the one on post is the Army prison, this one in the town of Leavenworth is the Federal prison.

We stopped at park and I went on my very first geocache. Here is our find.

Searching through our treasure.

The bushes we had to go through to get to the geocache.

Back at home we (meaning not me, but I watched) made frozen jello pops. They have jello in the bottom, and sprite on the top.

The girls cooking.

Three sentence movie reviews: The Bling Ring

Much like the people in Spring Breakers, these people did not share my values, but in a much more fun and accessible way than the girls in Florida. While the characters in this movie were fairly unlikable, the film itself was quite likable giving a remote perch from which to view their poor choices. I found this to be a much more chatty film than more Sophia Coppola films, and I enjoyed the uptick in dialogue.

Cost: free due to magical movie viewing at home
Where watched: At the Wolf Pack’s house with Heather. Patrick made us popcorn.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2013/bling_ring_ver2.html

A visit to the Commissary.

So much fun! There is nothing ironic in that statement. When I travel I most delight in seeing normal everyday things that are different. This was one of them. One can only shop at the commissary if they have the proper military ID. I think you have to live at Ft. Leavenworth to shop there, though Heather can weigh in in comments if I’m wrong.

An easy way to fill prescriptions.

The produce looked delicious. Very fresh.

There were all sorts of food from all over the world, because Army families who live abroad want to be able to eat delicious food they develop a taste for when they return home.