Ben has been working like crazy and is never home, and we were feeling homesick for Iowa, so the kids and I decided to go to St. Louis and see our friends the Pettits. The Cook's were also there visiting so we got to see them too! Ellie was lucky to get to play with two of her best friends from Iowa, Addie and Marlee. And I got to play with two of my best friends from Iowa too, Danna & Ashley :) We stayed super busy exploring the great city of St. Louis.
First stop was Grant's Farm. We got to ride a fun tram around the beautiful farm. The kids had fun feeding the goats and seeing all of the animals. We enjoyed a fun elephant show and a bird show. We also got to see the Anhueser Busch Clydesdales. It was a super fun day with friends!
(Note that Ellie and Addie are matchy matchy :) They always have the same shirts!)
Our second day in St. Louis we went to The Magic House. It's a super awesome children's museum. There was an entire child sized city where the kids could experience doing every kind of job: ice cream cart, grocery store, vet, restaurant, post office, library and hospital.
Dax LOVED the water area!
Both my boys loved the construction toys, especially the real life caterpillar tractor!
The life size bubble machine was awesome!!
And we had fun playing with static electricity!
The third day in St. Louis we went to their awesome zoo! It was huge and free! There was way too much to see and do so we will have to go again :) The kids loved all of the animals and the carousel. Most of all we loved hanging with friends!
We didn't get to ride the train today, but we pretended for a second. I love Ellie's face :)
Cole was monkeying around while we waited our turn to go into the aquarium. Dax loved being eye level with the water animals. And I thought the penguins were adorable.
It was a super fun filled day at the zoo with friends!
We topped off the day by going to Fritzs for some delicious frozen custard. Yum!!
Dax decided cones aren't that cool and it is more fun to make custard art than eat it :)
We had a blast this weekend with our good friends in St. Louis! None of us wanted to come home today after church, but we missed Ben and need to get ready for the new school year. Thanks for the fun break Danna, we all needed it!!
