I was surprised and delighted to find out that the Kingman Christmas Village in north Topeka is up. It is a large display with many hand made items and 30,000 lights. Kenny and Virginia Kingman, who created the display over 30 years, passed away after setting up the 2022 display and I was afraid it was over.

We also checked on the reopened Speck's Bar & Grill. Specks began as the Seabrook Tavern in 1957 and had a long tradition of serving burgers up 3 lbs. It closed in June, but was purchased and reopened a few months later. It is now open under the same name and we several long time favorite items (such as the huge burger) are still on the menu.

The pork tenderloin was quite good and I had one of my long time favorite items, the Bomber Hot Dog with Swiss cheese, jalapeno peppers, sauerkraut and onions. the cheese wasn't melted and it seemed to be mostly sauerkraut. They are doing well enough that we will be trying them again.

Specks Bomber Dog

On our way back home we discovered that the Lindeen Family Christmas Display in Eudora, which wasn't up when checked earlier this season, was up and looking good.

We also stopped at Cedar Creek in northwest Olathe to check out a large new display. On the way we discovered an additional display at Shadow Glen Golf Club.

The "big smoked chicken" lived up to its name, a really large serving. It had a good flavor from the smoking and had been nicely finished in the deep fryer. The corn bread and onion straws were good as well.

Tonight we visited a display in Mission which is spread over two adjacent homes in a culdesac. It is almost enough to be added to our tours, but it is 4 miles from the closest other special display and I feel it is too much additional driving. 

We also checked a huge display in Kansas City, Kansas near Edwardsville, which is spread over a big corner lot on Dixie Court. It was added to our Bonner Springs / Edwardsville Christmas Light Tour.

Dixie Court Display

We had supper at Mass Street Fish House. The Low Tide (four oysters, 1/2 lb cocktail shrimp, 1/2 snow crab) was very nice.