Weekend before last, I loaded up my little family, drove to <a href="http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/">our best friends'</a>, and made them drive us to <a href="http://www.visitkc.com/index.aspx">Kansas City, MO</a>, for the weekend.<br /><br />After settling in at the hotel in <a href="http://www.westportkc.com/map.html">the bustling little community of Westport</a> Saturday morning, we walked (walked!!!) to here for lunch:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/SZYoqUAG_uI/AAAAAAAAAoY/rGscQ_SouNI/s1600-h/DSC03608.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/SZYoqUAG_uI/AAAAAAAAAoY/rGscQ_SouNI/s400/DSC03608.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302470318664122082" border="0" /></a>Look! A brew pub! They exist!<br /><br />Sorry. Not getting out of Oklahoma and away from its crazy beer and liquor laws much, I sometimes forget there are brew pubs out there in the badlands.<br /><br />While you wait for your food at <a href="http://www.mccoyspublichouse.com/">McCoys</a> - which I thought was very good, by the way - you can elbow other diners in the backs of their heads as you gawk at this:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/SZYmnzzyWJI/AAAAAAAAAn4/byTr7G-gMcg/s1600-h/DSC03596.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/SZYmnzzyWJI/AAAAAAAAAn4/byTr7G-gMcg/s400/DSC03596.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302468076639508626" border="0" /></a>The guts of a microbrewery! Well, part of them.<br /><br />Speaking of guts:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/SZYoivXaysI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/WvhpDiIzDhE/s1600-h/DSC03607.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/SZYoivXaysI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/WvhpDiIzDhE/s400/DSC03607.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302470188570692290" border="0" /></a>My little one's ended up all over the floor, thanks to some fancy-tasting cheese in his mac.<br /><br />Note to self: In the event you affect yourself and those around you by giving another child its birth, do not travel with it and expect to have time to "relax."<br /><br />Schooled by motherhood once again.<br /><br />The rest of us managed to keep our lunches down, thank you very much.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/SZYnRMyvCFI/AAAAAAAAAoI/9WUrRWleHEw/s1600-h/DSC03605.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/SZYnRMyvCFI/AAAAAAAAAoI/9WUrRWleHEw/s400/DSC03605.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302468787720620114" border="0" /></a>That's Aubrey, Amanda's husband. He likes fish and chips. Apparently.<br /><br />And who wouldn't?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/SZYm1p-rq0I/AAAAAAAAAoA/740VMJGYJPo/s1600-h/DSC03603.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/SZYm1p-rq0I/AAAAAAAAAoA/740VMJGYJPo/s400/DSC03603.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302468314519022402" border="0" /></a>Even if <a href="http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/17842/?view=beerfly&amp;ba=brewintheLou">the fish and chips at McNellie's</a> in downtown Tulsa is better.<br /><br />I'm pretty sure my little one would agree.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/SZ1ngc3dz0I/AAAAAAAAAr4/j_zFovCcCTg/s1600-h/DSC03591.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/SZ1ngc3dz0I/AAAAAAAAAr4/j_zFovCcCTg/s400/DSC03591.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304509743314620226" border="0" /></a>That's him after a few sweet potato fries at <a href="http://www.mcnellies.com/">McNellie's</a> the Friday afternoon before we skipped town.<br /><br />Compared to his state of being Saturday afternoon after a bit of the fare at an out-of-town pub:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/SZ1oBcvM0kI/AAAAAAAAAsA/HyeMHJXS3FQ/s1600-h/DSC03607.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/SZ1oBcvM0kI/AAAAAAAAAsA/HyeMHJXS3FQ/s400/DSC03607.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304510310215635522" border="0" /></a>Homesickness: He's doing it right.