My Trip to Kansas City

It was a tiring trip overall. First day, drive sampai St Louis, MO saja, 12 hours straight from State College PA, passed Ohio, passed Indiana, passed Illinois and lastly sampai jugak Missouri. We arrived at the hotel around 11.15 pm. Badan pun dah letih, terus tido.

The next day drive 4 hours more to Kansas City. We went to visit a Msian-Indonesian family when we arrived (wife dia Msian, husband Indonesian, anak2 dia American). Duduk2.. lepak2, pastu lunch nasi lemak, then kitaorg pegi jln2 at the city and looked for the Cerner building since I never saw it before.

The main entrance to Cerner Corporation.

The main building, this is where Amin's going to work.

Late in the afternoon, we headed to another Msian family house. Diaorg ni young couple, ade sorang anak. Kitaorg stay kat rumah diaorg masa kat KC. So kitaorg jimat la duit, tak yah duduk kat hotel.

The next two days, kitaorg try cari rumah. We had enough of staying in an apt. Dah boring dengar bising2 sume, pastu kita nak wat bising pun takut org lain marah kan. So we decided to find a real house. Tp mmg susah la cr rumah, because mostly rumah for sale, kalu ade for rent pun yg crappy2 one and it's in a horrible neighborhood.

After all the pening2, we ended up renting a duplex house near the highway. I know it's kinda noisy most of the time with the traffics, but since the owner just replaced the windows, I think it's going to be okay. Lgpun kitchen je yg facing the highway, the main bedroom and the living room is on the other side, so shouldn't be a big problem.

Here are the photos of the duplex and the yard.

What we like about the duplex: has a big garage with an opener, big kitchen (can fit a small dining table), gas stove, a bigger bathroom, very cheap rent ($600/month) and it's less than 10 mins away from Cerner.

So on Thusday, we headed back to Indiana PA. The trip took 17 hours long (pheww). On the way back, I took some photos of the cities that we passed by.

St Louis Arch (si Jo Jen dok sibuk suruh aku pegi hahaha). The highway was so busy at St Louis, so we didn't have time to visit the Arch, just passed by.

St Louis Rams football stadium.

A huge cross in the middle of the highway. WEIRD.

Indianapolis skyscraper (kampung halaman si Jo Jen hehehe).

A guy with a funny looking helmet. I bet he is a Cincinnati Bengals fan! (maskot diaorg tiger).

So alhamdulillah, we got back to State College safely. Tak de kena tahan polis wpun Amin bawak laju gile (the highest speed was 104 mph on the GPS). One thing sbb kitaorg ade speed detector, mayb jugak sbb luck =D

We plan on moving to KC for good on the first week of August. So we have only 2 weeks left staying at SC. So kena enjoy la skarang (ni pun tgh lepak2 takde keje).