Meet Me in St. Louis

During Chris' Spring Break we decided to paint our kitchen cabinets (there will be a post about this later.) While the paint was REALLY drying we decided to take a trip to St. Louis. It was lots of fun, and a little disappointing.

On Friday we went to the zoo. It is ranked one of the best zoos in the nation, and it is free! And with the reciprocal zoo agreements, we were able to use our zoo pass from our local zoo to buy Safari Passes, which get us onto every ride. at half price. This paid off in a big way. We could ride the train around the park as many times and as often as we wanted. Kiah loves to ride the train and Eli was able to nap. We also rode the Carousel at least 4 times, but I think it was more than that. We also rode the ride simulator twice.
We saw a peacock protecting 2 peahens. It was a long fun day. As we were heading over to the Children's zoo, we ran into one of my old roommates. It just so happens that she married Chris' old roommate. We had no idea they were in St. Louis. It is unbelievable the odds of running into her at the zoo.

Unfortunately Eli got very sick that night with Croup. NO FUN! So Chris stayed at the Hotel with Eli and Anna on Saturday. So I took Kiah out for some more St. Louis fun. It actually worked out nicely. Chris really never gets the chance to just stay home and I never get the chance to go out alone with one child. I forgot how easy one child is!

Kiah and I headed over to The St. Louis Science Center. The Science Center is also free. Yippee! And with the reciprocal agreement they have with other museums we were able to use our Children's Museum Membership to see a few extra things for free, like the Discovery room. We played with all sorts of fun things, like a skeleton puzzle and a water table. Later Kiah played with a tornado. She got a little shy because everyone started to stare at her and talk about her since she could crawl inside the tube. She didn't much care for the attention. The whole time at the Science Center Kiah kept asking to go on the elevator, so I told her that I would take her to a really cool elevator.

Kiah and I headed to The St.Louis Arch. We had lots of fun.That night we went to get some Frozen Custard, Chris' favorite!


Eli really was doing a little better, but we didn't want to push it, so we stayed one more night.

The next morning Eli seemed a bit better, except for the fact that he wouldn't eat or drink anything all day and whined, wimpered, and cried all day. So Sunday evening Eli and I went to the ER to make sure there wasn't anymore going on. They wanted to take some x-rays. He got to ride int he wagon on his way to the x-ray. Then they took the x-ray. It was so hard to watch.

Overall, he was ok. It was Croup like I thought. He had some inflamtion in is throat so they gave him some steroids to fix that up. He is much better today!


there are lots of pictures I didn't post, but you can see them in the photo albums.