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Ride on the river: Lynn Bannel, Wichita senior, takes a turn on the gondola with boyfriend Max White. 2010 graduate. Getting out of Lawrence and exploring Kansas City culture can be a great change of scenery for a date.
TAKE A DAY OFF FROM LAWRENCE AND EXPLORE K.C.
SATURDAY SPLURGE
Bammel's carefully crafted boat ride is just one of five day trips that dodge the dreary and escape the ordinary. Grab the keys and dust off the GPS. It's time to leave Lawrence and experience life in the big city. Well, the biggest city within a 50-mile radius. After all, not everything about Missouri is bad, regardless of what Jayhawks have been bred to think.
WORDS BY ASHLEY BARFOROUSH | PHOTOS BY DALTON GOMEZ
Chris Sperry has been sprinkling a little bit of Venice into Kansas City's waterways for six years now. The owner of Ambiance on the Water Gondola Tours creates more than the mood. He builds the boats, too. For 20-30 minutes couples like Bammel and her boyfriend can coast along the creek and forget they're thousands of miles from the sea.
"It really breaks up the dating routine. The wind was in my hair and Italian music was playing softly," Bammel says. "It was pure romance."
200 Ward Parkway Kansas City, MO 64112
Wed.- Sat. 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. through Nov.
$55-$50 per couple
S35-S50 per couple
(www.ambianceonthewater.com)
SOPHISTICATED SATURDAY
Jena Borel has been drawn to The Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art since she celebrated her 13th birthday under its majestic ceiling. Nine years later, the Lenexa senior is majoring in art history and views the galleries with more educated eyes.
"I think there was a childish curiosity that made me really in awe of it when I was younger," Borel says. "But now it's more interesting because I know about the artists and the pieces."
Constructed in 1933, the neo-classical architecture takes you back to the 18th century with thick column entrances and 40-foot tall
ceilings. The Nelson features 33,500 total works of art that fill the 23,000 square feet of gallery space. Add 22 acres to that number, including the outdoor sculpture park, which is home to the infamous 18-foot-tall shuttlecocks.
The museum is acclaimed for its Asian collection of Buddhist and Hindu sculpture, but Borel prefers the French impressionist paintings of Claude Monet and Edgar Dega.
You don't have to frolic as far as France to see the same artists. The Nelson showcases European, African, Modern and Contemporary Art and 10 other permanent collections.
"Our museum had some of the best Egyptian art in the nation but we didn't have a mummy," says Robert Cohon, curator of ancient art at the Nelson-Atkins.
Now he's wrapped up in the Nelson's newest addition: a 2,500-year-old mummy named Ka-i-nefer.
Prefer flashier art? This season's temporary exhibit, "Thinking Photography," features five decades of work from the Kansas City Art Institute.
After appeasing your appetite for art, satisfy
your stomach at the Rozzelle Court Restaurant inside the main entrance of the museum. It's built like a 15th-century Italian courtyard so you can enjoy fresh salads, sandwiches, soups, breads and desserts surrounded in ancient style.
>> 4525 Oak Street Kansas City, MO 64111
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. | Free
(www.nelson-atkins.org)
CHNEMA SATURDAY
Brooke Rider can have her cosmo and drink it too. At least, at AMC Studio 30 she can. The Olathe senior's red recliner was only one of 30 seats in the room. The theatre in Olathe tweaked the concept of "dinner and a movie" into dinner in a movie. After flashing her 21-year-old smile, and ID, Rider was admitted into one of three exclusive
Dinner and a movie: The AMC cinema gives movie-goers the opportunity to indulge in food and drink options in front of the silver screen.
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