I'd had BBQ and a burger in the past, so this time I went with a pork tenderloin. This was my favorite dish so far. The tenderloin & one side are reasonable at $10.50. There is a credit card surcharge, but it is on 1.50%, which is less than what the restaurant is charged by the processing company. I'm not usually a fan of battered French fries, but these lightly battered ones were good as well.

I had previously checked on some of the Eudora displays and all the remaining ones are up this year as well.

In Lawrence, all of the displays are back this year, except the Martin family's Parkside Christmas, After 17 years, they have discontinued their synchronized light and music program this year.

Downtown, I stopped at Mass Street Soda, which has been open 11 years. They advertise that they have 1,000 varieties of craft soda from all over the world. I was disappointed that they had neither the Diet Vernors Ginger Ale or Diet Frostie Root Beer that I wanted, but settled for a regular Frostie float.

Santa Fe Steam Locomotive 1073 in Watkins Park in Lawrence was looking nice in the snow.

In the evening, we drove to the Cedar Creek neighborhood in far northwest Olathe, to check on a couple of Christmas displays from previous years. 

The synchronized light and music program at Shadow Glen Golf Club is bigger this year. but the neighborhood display at 108th Street is much bigger. In 2025 it has grown to fill the yards of 23 different houses and rivals commercial drive through displays. A couple of white tail deer were wandering through the displays.

Pork Tenderloin & fries

Mass Street Soda

Santa Fe Steam Locomotive 1073

You order at a counter and your food is brought to your table when it is ready. You serve your own Coke fountain drinks.

We had a pork tenderloin sandwich with French fries, grilled chicken quesadilla, and pulled pork sandwich with slaw. All were good with the tenderloin being my favorite.

But desserts are the star of the show at Aunt Netters. Even without having it heated or with ice cream, the Dutch apple pie was great. Cherry pie and peanut butter chocolate chip cookies to go were also good. 

I followed up on some Christmas displays which were ot up yet in Topeka, Kansas when I checked before Thanksgiving and was pleased to find that the Staffordshire Road Christmas Display is back. At one time, three homes in a row formed major Christmas Light Displays in the 3000 block of Staffordshire Road but since 2019, it has been mostly one, with part of one of the display stretching into each of the next yards. This year it is smaller still, all in one yard, but is still quite impressive.

In the evening, I continued to check on Christmas Displays in Lenexa and Overland Park.

Dutch Apple Pie

Midway through the tour, I had lunch at Harp Barbecue on 135th Street in Overland Park, Kansas. I last dined there shortly after it moved from Raytown, Missouri, about a year ago. The restaurant had only one other customer when I arrived, a little after noon, but did get busier later on. You order at the counter, serve yourself fountain drinks (they have COke products, but do not have Diet Coke), and they bring the food to the table.

Wanting dishes I hadn't had before, I ordered a sausage sandwich with tallow French fries and a quarter pound of pork belly (special this day).

The sausage needed a sauce, but I didn't care for their sauce and saved mst of it to have at home with sauce of my own. As I was about to leave, a couple of tables near me were brought their food and offered a second, hot sauce, which hadn't been offered to me.

The pork belly was good, but I think I would have enjoyed it even more without the "sticky," which was a sweet sauce with sesame seeds.

The crinkle fries were OK.
  
  

Sausage sandwick, fries & sticky pork belly

They are now in a much smaller place (6 tables inside) and the buffet is back but only Friday evening and lunch & supper on Saturday & Sunday. The $20 dinner buffet included many of the dishes I loved before and some of them seem even better than I remember, particularly the Tandoori Chicken, Fafil and Nan. The Tandoori Chicken is not on the menu, so it looks like I will be waiting for the weekends when it is on the buffet.

I hope their old clientele finds them and they start filling up. That may mean there is no place to sit, but the buffet can also be ordered to go.

On the way home we checked on some Lenexa Christmas Displays and discovered one from the past on 84th Street. It is the Knackstedt Family Christmas Display, just east of Pflumn Road. It hasn't been up when I have checked some years, but is back and really beautiful! The display began with figures modeled on the Mitford Snowmen Collection and has been added to over the years.
  
  
  

Buffet

Lenexa Xmas Display