Kansas City, MO (St. Louis is the layout photo)
1.) Have you ever been to Missouri? Yes.
2.) What city or cities have you been to in Missouri? St. Louis & Kansas City.
3.) How did you like visiting those 2 cities that you been to in the Show Me State? I enjoyed Kansas City but St. Louis was okay.
4.) You mentioned that St. Louis was okay when you visited it can you please explain? I went to St. Louis with my ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée to see her family back in December of 2002. It was an awkward feeling because my ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée's sister, her sister's husband, and her sister's daughter met me because my ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée bragged about being engaged to me and told them that me & her were getting married. I began to realize more and more that I regret mentioning to my ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée that I was 80% sure that she could possibly (not certain) be my wife when me and my ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée was in Tulsa, OK. I also felt condemned as a Christian shacking up with my ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée and felt that it was wrong because we were not married. My ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée knew that us living together was wrong & knew that people would think that that was wrong but wanted people to believe that me and her were getting married when she knew that she didn't want to be married but just be in a relationship. The statistics say that boyfriends and girlfriends who live together before they get married (80% I'm guessing) those who do marry that their marriage end in a divorce. Couples who are married that never shacked up and lived together (1%- 5% I'm also guessing) marriage end in a divorce. When I went to Kansas City I went back in December of 2010 with my roommate at the time with his family. I spent 6 days with my roommate and his family and spent 2 weeks back home in Bloomfield; my roommate's father purchased a round trip ticket for me to come back to Kansas City January of 2011 so that me and my roommate could drive back to Chattanooga, TN.
5.) Are you saying that the reason that you went to Missouri one of those times was because you thought that you and your ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée were planning on getting married? Absolutely! I only went to Missouri with my ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée because I thought she was serious about marriage & was tired of nonsense.
6.) If you had a chance to choose out of St. Louis or Kansas City again which city would it be and why? I would definitely go to Kansas City again because they are more hospitable than the people are in St. Louis.
7.) Is there any other city or cities that you would want to visit in the Show Me State? I hear how beautiful Branson is and Billye Brim have a beautiful prayer Mountain in the Ozarks that I would love to go to! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqIJLz9IiF4
8.) What did you learn from that awkward experience traveling with your ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée to St. Louis? How my ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée claimed that her younger sister and her brother-in-law gang up on her is not true because they actually looked up to her. Her sister went to school and wanted to be smart like my ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée. My ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée sister might not be a Christian but she knew that shacking up is wrong and what convicted me the most was that me and my ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée was only there in St. Louis with her family as boyfriend and girlfriend and not husband and wife. I also learned that my ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée was in major debt to a lot of banks and schools and she had bill collectors calling her in Tulsa and she would avoid them by not answering her phone or she would lie to them and tell them that who they were looking for was not home.
9.) How would you rate your over all experience going to the show me state from a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being you really didn't like it and 10 being you really like it? I'm going to go with 7.
10.) How soon would you see yourself traveling to Missouri again Very soon, Somewhat soon, Not soon, Not at all, or Unsure? I am going to go with I'm not sure.
11.) Did you eat out at any restaurants when you went to Missouri? Yes.
12.) What restaurant or restaurants do you remember going to when were in Missouri? Ponderosa in St. Louis with my ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée, her family all went to eat for my ex-girlfriend/ex-fiancée sister's birthday and MacArthur's in Kansas City. I ate out with my roommate and his family.
13.) In your opinion how are the people in the Show Me State of Missouri? Kansas City is more hospitable than St. Louis. East Missouri dealt with a lot of race riots and that's probably why the people in my humble opinion tend not to be as friendly like they are in West Missouri. One thing they all have in common is that they take pride in their college basketball teams, college football teams, and NFL football teams! The people are country in MO and outgoing especially in Kansas City.
