Happy Cinco De Mayo! For CDM, we hung out with Elaine and Kyle in Downtown KC! It just happened to be First Friday's in KC (First Fridays is where the Art Galleries in the downtown Arts District open up to the public and some of them have complementary drinks too!). It takes a lot of motivation to drive from Suburbia 30 minutes to Downtown so what we learnt is that 
for galleries...In 2nd Gallery we struck paydirt! The ladies got themselves Chardonnay & Shiraz while Kyle and myself got Coronas in cememoration of CDM! Apparently they felt wronged that we got entire Corona bottles worth of drinks, while they had trendy half-filled styrofoam cups with wine... So much for quality over quantity... Oh yeah, the gallery had very nice art too. Actually, the more we drank, the better the pieces looked! Klye even took the time to bid on a painting, a very cool looking crayola piece.
There were also lots of nice looking lofts overlooking the galleries, and a very artsy atmosphere with tons of people strolling around on the streets below... Ahh..how nice to be able to afford a place like this to stay in on the weekends! BTW, how much does urban bohemian living cost? To find out we explored a couple of loft units in downtown as well...They run from the 100's to the upper 700's. Yep, thats in thousands, and not counting home owners association dues that may cost up to $600-$800 more a month. Now, that's a chuck of change!!!
At about 9'ish the galleries were closed, and we were dry. 
We capped off the night at our favorite Spanish restaurant downtown - La Bodega! Its in the Spanish section of downtown, with some nice tables on the sidewalk overlooking the street. 2 pitchers of White and Red Sangrias + about 9 orders of tapas later...Here's a couple of pictures of us at that place. The weather was a bit nippy, but overall it was dry, so we sat outside and hung out till about midnight... Who would have thought Art would be so much fun!
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