Parking lot picnic 1959

One lovely summer day in 1959 we had my nephew Chris visiting. Ray was going to take a flight demonstrating on a Boeing 707 to Chicago. We decided to go with him to the Kansas City airport. He would not be gone long and we would take a picnic lunch and eat it at Waterworks Park while he was gone. He was to be gone two hours. We all waved merrily as he took off and then went back to the car. Ray had taken the keys with him. We ate our lunch in the parking lot and spent the next two hours watching planes take off and land. That was fun. The next day I took the boys to Van's Grocery to our bus station to go to Topeka but the bus driver would not take them unescorted so I drove them to Topeka. Then upon his return, Ray's vacation started but for that I recommend you read Susan's book of our first camping trip--"When the Spam Hit the Sand". A three week trip we took with a gas credit card, $25 in cash and only got arrested once.