OUT AND ABOUT IN KANSAS CITY: PLAZA ART FAIR

Every year around this time, Kansas Citians break out their fall wardrobe and head to the Plaza Art Fair.  It's a weekend full of live bands, great food, and beautiful art.  The art may be a bit pricey, but it is a gorgeous backdrop for the people watching and festivities that make the area come alive.

The Country Club Plaza was built in the 1920s as the first shopping center to accommodate shoppers arriving by car.  The architecture is modeled after Seville, Spain and is home to cool restaurants and shops.

We headed there on Friday night.  The area was aglow.  One of the coolest parts of the fair is that the local restaurants on the Plaza each have their own food stand.  You can try a steak sandwich from one of the nicest steak places in town and wash it down with a frozen sangria.  Doesn't that sound delicious?

   

We got there just in time to hear an 80s cover band rock out as smoke billowed from the stage.  Nothing gets a crowd going quite like a cover band.  What's not to love?  You get to hear all those old favorites that make you want to dance around.

One of my favorite things about the Plaza is that a creek runs alongside it.  We used to live in this area, and it was so fun to take walks along the little river and then shoot up to a cool restaurant or bar.  Legend has it that Tom Pendergast, the allegedly corrupt mob boss in Kansas City, buried his adversaries in the concrete when his company paved the bottom of the creek.  Did you know Kansas City had a huge mob connection?  I'll have to save more detail on that for a later post, because I love that kind of stuff.  So intriguing.     

If you're ever in the area, be sure to stop by the Plaza.  It has beautiful architecture and a lot of history.  Oh, and the shopping and restaurants are also pretty nice.  Just 364 days to the next art fair.  Mark your calendars now.