July 17, 2007 Day off in Olathe

the day started off with a trip to the Mahafee farm and stage coach stop on the Santa Fe trail. We were served omletes by a former city council women, and then given a tour of the homestead. http://www.olatheks.org/visitors/mahaffie/ later in the day we ate lunch with the Lakemary center for a friendship visit. Lakemary was an awesome place because they provide so many great services for people with disabilities, everything from group homes, jobs, job training, help with job placement, and day time service and sometimes just a place to hang out. The wonderful people at lake marry cooked us lunch then gave us a tour of all of their sites before we chose one to hang out at for the remainder of the afternoon. Later we were able to hang out with Mark Cameron (teamcameron.org) a quadriplegic man who runs his own business as well as lives almost completely on his own. He worked really hard and did a great job setting everything up for us in Olathe. For dinner we attended a tailgaiting party for an Olathe T-Bones baseball game just before heading to the game. The T-Bones didn't win. After the game most of us called it a night, even though it was a “day off” it was more tiring than a normal day full of cycling
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