Wichita was a good time. We get to Steve’s place and immediately head down to the venue for the show. We get there just as the place runs out of beer. I guess they just had one keg or something, I never did get the whole story. Anyway the show was a good one. The venue is an old theatre that is restored on the outside but not so much on the inside. It is decent though, just showing signs of its age. From there we went to a few bars. The highlight of the night was definitely in America’s Pub where we sat at a table and watched the dance floor. Quite an interesting mix of people were in attendance and they provided non stop laughs for us. A good night in Wichita!
Saturday we drove home and headed straight towards our never ending day of apartment tours. It started off pretty bad with SoHo West where we saw what I hope is their worst building. It wasn’t terrible but it was a definite downgrade from where we are now. Kitchens from the 80s were in each unit we saw. Next up was the River Market Lofts. Again, not very impressive. We then had extra time so we stopped in at Clubhouse Lofts which is in the old Kansas City Club (one of those exclusive male only places you often hear about). This is our favorite of the places we saw. It just had a great feeling to it and the units were amazing. They are only a year old and some of the units have never been lived in at all. This of course comes with a price that we probably can’t afford right now. We will keep this in mind though. We then went to our last appointment of the day at Library Lofts, probably the runner up in our hunt. Their workout center is very nice. The units are carpeted for the most part, but it is new and looks pretty good. One thing we didn’t really care for was the size of the place, it seems like there were millions of units. This would not be a bad choice though. From here we went home and had dinner and then headed out on the Plaza for a little bit. We met up with Amanda and Joel over at the Granfalloon. Mike and a new friend Jeff also made an appearance. We also went to Tomfooleries before the night was over…
Sunday we woke up and soon realized that we had another appointment with apartments for the day. We went to KC Loft Space. Of course we looked a places on the lower end of the scale, but they were still really nice. I didn’t like them as much as the last two from Saturday but they are a great choice if you want to live in the River Market Area. After a quick lunch at Minsky’s we went to the last place that we wanted to see in the “Great Apartment Search.” This place would be New Quality Hill. They seem to own about 8 blocks of buildings on the west side of downtown. They have everything from large buildings with lots of units all the way down to townhomes. We looked at a few different units and heard some pretty good pricing from them. They are not quite as nice as some of the other places, but seem to be a good value. Kim said that if she knew they were around the same pricing that we have now that she would have considered moving there from the beginning. Another place to keep in mind…
Later in the day we watched more Sopranos and ate dinner at Doni & Phil’s. I then had a hockey game, which we ended up losing, but I think I had a pretty good game. 1 goal and a post in the first shift of the game!
As far as apartments goes, I think we will just be moving across the hall for now. The management is supposed to call today so we can work out the details but it should be no problem at all. Then we will keep these other places in mind for later on. It was nice to see what is out there though…
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