St. Louis

here we - came. Anyone looking for a family friendly vacation, give good old St. Louis a try. We LOVED it. We stayed at the Marriott Union Station (really beautiful building with shopping inside) and hit some fun kid sites including the Magic House, the City Museum and Six Flags! The City Museum is a must for anyone with kids and wants to see something incredibly different and lots of fun! It's like a giant playground (three stories I believe) made out of 100% recycled materials from all around St. Louis. So it is all pieced together out of the most unexpected materials. It's really way crazy. Anyhow we had loads of fun and really need to get back as we didn't have time for all the things on my list (I really want to get to Grants Farm). I mean the place was so much fun! We made it to the Arch where they were celebrating the 100th Birthday of the head architect of the project, so we even had cake (see photo in previous post). We actually walked the entire way back to the hotel where we went past the City Garden (incredible playground with fountains and sculptures for the kids to climb) but had to rush past because it started to rain. So yet another place to have to return to on the next visit. The hotel room was perfect too. We had a big window seat (that overlooked the ever so important pool) that the kids loved to sit in and play with all their toys and puzzles (a favorite right now). Oh, and the drive down was rather good I'd say. We finally set up our DVD player for the car, and it was perfect! We left in the evening and they both slept for awhile, but when they woke, we popped in a movie and it was two content kids the rest of the way! The DVD player was also great in the room at night! If no appropriate kids cartoons or movies were on we'd put a movie on and they loved watching the mini screen, you know something new and different I guess! Anyway way too many photo's but it really was a great vacation! Thanks Jon, Ava and Zac!