Will was on vacation the several days before during and several day after Memorial day and while Rex did have a 4 day weekend off school we just hung around home and had a good Staycation. We did something different everyday and had lots of good family time. I took a lot of pics so I though I would do a separate post from May for all of them. With out further ado here are a few highlights:
Friday we headed City Museum in St. Louis. What is City Museum you ask? I always say its hard to describe City you just have to go for yourself. Its like a cross between a playground, a old factory, a artist that went crazy with re-bar and a welding machine, and a museum. Will and I went several years back on a date day so we knew what to expect. I've thought for a while the boys would like it but you really need a 1:1 kid to adult ratio. The whole place is things to climb up, and in, and through and they rarely come out where they started. Sometimes they can end up on a completely different floor. It would be great to take a bunch of jr. highers and say meet back here at this time and them them go crazy but with a 4 and 6 years old you want to stick close. Grant was a little nervous at first because a lot of it is dimly lit and a lot of the climbing is on metal bars and it made him kinda nervous to see below him and think he might fall through the bar holes. He warmed up pretty quick and several hours later when Mom and Dads knees and backs had had about all they could take for one day the boys were just warming up to it all. It was a good first visit and I'm sure we will be back sometime, the boys are already planning it. (we'd love to take some cousins with us sometime!)
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| Rex and Will going up |
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| Grant and I climbing a tree. |
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| The boys really liked the cave area |
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| I just really liked this staircase, you may see it again some day in a different post. The boys also climbed it a lot to come down a slide they really liked |
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| The outside area which wasn't open because it had rained all morning and was wet, it opened right as we were leaving. |
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| climbing through a glass tunnel above Daddy |
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| After the Museum we went to check out Crown Candy Kitchen a historic landmark in St. Louis. There was a line and wait to get in and the boys weren't real thrilled about it, but they survived. |
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| The boys liked checking out the candy and both got to pick out a special treat. |
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| It is like a old soda fountain shop inside with sandwiches and old fashioned Malts. Everyone enjoyed their food |
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| A close up of my Turkey Special. |
One Saturday we had a nice relaxing morning around the house got the yard mowed and then headed down the Great River road to Grafton, IL to check out a Nina and Pinta replica ship that are docked there. We also enjoyed driving into Pierre Marquette State Park and the scenic drive through it.
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| AHOY Matey! |
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| The boys checking out below deck, they wouldn't let us go down there. |
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| Rex took this picture of us, he did pretty good. |
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| It was very happen'n down at the dock there was also a flea market going on we walked through. |
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| We enjoyed some caramel popcorn on the bank and the boats going by. |
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| Pierre Marquette scenic overlook. |
Sunday: Will and I both got long runs in, I made a big breakfast and we still made it to 11 church. May 29th! Will and I celebrated our 12th Wedding Anniversary. Will got me this lovely pendant with his badge name and number on it, I gave him candy, lots of candy. ha!
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Monday: (Memorial Day) We went to Grandma and Grandpa's for the weekend and had a special visitor from Texas! Alex! The boys had a blast with him there all day.
On Tuesady (Will's last day of vacation) Mom and Alex came over to Fairview to hang out.
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| Rex had school but still got to play a little before they left |
Its back to work now, but in just 2 short weeks we will all be on vacation again, this time headed to Kansas.
Friday we headed City Museum in St. Louis. What is City Museum you ask? I always say its hard to describe City you just have to go for yourself. Its like a cross between a playground, a old factory, a artist that went crazy with re-bar and a welding machine, and a museum. Will and I went several years back on a date day so we knew what to expect. I've thought for a while the boys would like it but you really need a 1:1 kid to adult ratio. The whole place is things to climb up, and in, and through and they rarely come out where they started. Sometimes they can end up on a completely different floor. It would be great to take a bunch of jr. highers and say meet back here at this time and them them go crazy but with a 4 and 6 years old you want to stick close. Grant was a little nervous at first because a lot of it is dimly lit and a lot of the climbing is on metal bars and it made him kinda nervous to see below him and think he might fall through the bar holes. He warmed up pretty quick and several hours later when Mom and Dads knees and backs had had about all they could take for one day the boys were just warming up to it all. It was a good first visit and I'm sure we will be back sometime, the boys are already planning it. (we'd love to take some cousins with us sometime!)
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