Labor Day

On Labor Day Nate and I decided to take a day off. Looking for something interesting to do, we bought a book about day trips around Kansas City. We settled on a short trip to Parkville, an old, small town that is about 10 minutes from downtown Kansas City on the northwest side. Parkville, despite popular misconceptions, is not called Parkville because it's so pretty. It was actually named after a Colonel George S Park. Parkville is also the home of Park University, a college that has been around since 1875. Here is Park University's MacKay Building - a bit different from the one we left at BYU.


Park University has a really interesting parking situation. There is a huge underground parking garage that you enter here:


And the underground parking lot looks like very large ant tunnels. Kind of creepy.


Park University also has an underground library that you enter through this hobbit hole.


Here I am about to leave the underground library.


We exited the underground library near these indoor tennis courts.


Then we had to cross this rickety, old bridge to get back to the rest of the campus.



After exploring Park University, Nate and I took a walk on Parkville's nature trail. Pictured below were our favorite spots:

A pretty waterfall:



A grassy field:


Some tall trees:
In this photo Nate and I tried out our automatic timer. Can you spot us?


The old Parkville jail:
It looks like Nate got trapped inside.