Oscarfest 2018

Another year, another Oscarfest. Since we went to St. Louis last year, mom and I decided it was time to give Kansas City a turn. We left from Columbia on Friday and took our time cruisin' down I70. Unlike our normally planned meals, we even did dinner by the seat of pants, which result in our discovering a very cool brewery/winery outside of Kansas City called Arcadia Moon. Once we arrived in the River Market, we stopped by Farmhouse for a drink before calling it a night!

Our 'fest truly began on Saturday though. We woke up with a little Quay Coffee--a favorite of ours in walking distance from KC Loft Space*. After we were ready, we realized we had some time to kill before our first movie, so we stopped by the Nelson-Atkins Museum for a bit.

For lunch, we went to Char Bar in Westport. We ordered and kindly told our waiter we were on a movie-mission and might be eating a little quickly. The food was delicious--we shared a pulled pork sandwich, fried pickles and a blue cheese wedge salad. As he checked on us and brought the food, our waiter made polite inquiries about what movie we were seeing, how many Oscar movies we had seen, had we heard about the Movie Pass? Finally, as he arrive at our table with the check, he offered to let us pop over the Tivoli with his Movie Pass and use his movie for the day. Delighted, I left mom at the table as collateral and scooted down the street to buy the tickets!

At the Tivoli, we saw "Call Me By Your Name," and proceed across the street to Beer Kitchen, where we cashed our tickets in for free beers! And some tasty pretzels. We headed back to the River Market then and rested/read before our next movie. We took the streetcar to Alamo Drafthouse and settled into our big, comfy recliners for dinner, drinks and our viewing of "The Post." After the movie, we set-up shop at Brown & Loe for a couple of beers.

On Sunday, we got up early and went to the infamous and Instagrammable Made in KC coffee shop. It was actually not as cute in person as it is in Instagram. But the coffee was good and we made good time to hit our next movie for the 10:00 a.m. showing of "Phantom Thread." If you've seen "Phantom Thread," you will understand why it is not likely that I was craving a mushroom omelet...but alas, I was. So, after the movie, we brunched a placed called the Big Biscuit and had my mushroom (and veggie and bacon) omelet.

Finally, we wrapped up our Oscarfest with "The Shape of Water," at this cool retro theater called Screenland. While we waited for the movie to start, we embarked in some of the arcade games they had. I'll tell you this much: Mom kicked my ass at Galactica.

We stopped by Texas Roadhouse (of course) on our way and learned quiiiite a bit about the Olympic Biathlon that was playing while we ate. By the end of Sunday evening, we realized what an excellent job we had done of balancing movies, beer, food, resting and chitchatting...the makings of a perfect weekend :)


*KC Loft Space is an apartment community that belongs to my company and, luckily, has a guest loft they rent out to residents and employees.