St. Louis

Our first family trip since Christmas, we had been avoiding due to the dreaded 12-18 month old. But, Drew is 19 months today - so we decided to give a weekend trip a whirl and headed to St. Louis on July 23rd. It was SWELTERING this past weekend in St. Louis, I think Friday was 102 and super humid. But, the kids did great and Ethan walked everywhere that we did and still had energy to boot.

Our first stop was to take the Metro because it was hot and the boys love trains. So we went over to Union Station (which is not much to see these days) but the kids did enjoy feeding the goldfish in the little pond and Jono so patiently gave out one little nibble each time for Drew to dump into the water.First stop on Saturday morning, well the Arch of course. Ethan thought the ride up was fantastic and the boys enjoyed peering out into St. Louis.Next stop was the City Museum which is the neatest place I have ever been for kids. Drew was not sure about the ball pit but they both loved the train ride.

On Sunday, we ate and then headed to the zoo. Such a nice zoo and free too. We of course had to do the train, which both kids enjoyed. It stopped right in front of the tigers and we had a great view which was my favorite thing we saw all day.

It was a good trip, and gave us a clue what our vacation in October for 5 nights will look like. Those boys do have a lot of energy though.....