Joetown Adventures, Part 3, The Grand Finale!

On  Friday, we had our biggest touristy day yet. Ryan and I booked a tour to go visit the Shatto farms where they make milk, butter, and cheese. All week, Ryan and I had been buying out  the milk supplies at the grocery store because we are so obsessed with this milk. They make delicious flavors of milk like orange cream, banana, cotton candy, strawberry, chocolate, coffee, and their 10^th anniversary flavor, Cookies and Cream. And Ryan and I have drank them all! So on the dairy farm tour, Ryan and I got to see the milking process and the farm’s production, and got to see a Shatto milk truck styled like a delivery truck in the 1950’s, and complete with a horn that moos instead of honks! They even let us milk a cow! Here’s Ryan milking the cow here!

 

The best part was that once the tour was over, we got free samples of ALL of their products, including all the milks I mentioned plus all of their butters and cheeses. It was HEAVEN, haha. Then we acted like tourists and bought about everything we could as souvenirs.

After the dairy farm tour, we went to KC to check out the Kansas City Branch of the Federal Reserve, the WW1 Museum, and the Liberty Memorial, a 300 ft. tower that looks out on all of Kansas City. I love this museum, it’s one of my favorites as I love the history and I love how they designed the entire place. The Memorial was really fun too, as it gives a spectacular view. You can see some of it in Ryan and I’s picture here.

Then we went to my cousin’s to see his new house. My cousin puts HGTV to shame with his renovations. They took an unsightly 1960’s Brady Bunch style home (it had lava rock on the walls of one of the rooms…Eek!) and have updated it so far to be a really modern, fun house! We enjoyed going through and seeing all of the plans. My favorite part of the tour was the basement. Their bathroom down there is so small that Ryan looks like a giant in a hobbit’s bathroom (see picture below).

But, had fun visiting my cousin and talking about things. But once again, we had to get going and we came home to the delicious home-cooked meal whipped up by mom. As an added bonus, my mom also made peanut-butter butterscotch cookies which were delicious! Needless to say, I was a very happy camper!

Right now we are on the road to our next destination, Amarillo, Texas where we’ll stay overnight until we get to his sister’s in Phoenix. Tune in for my next update on OKC and today’s journey!

Nick