We had an awesome time in St. Louis celebrating our anniversary. It was a spare of the moment trip, but we are so glad we went through with it. We needed the time together and had so much fun. We left Monday morning, of course, it was a little later than we had scheduled and of course there were many stops involved. Especially, when you leave without Matthew's shoes! The first place we hit up was the City Museum.
This museum is so much fun! I highly recommend it! Patrick put it best "it's a life size game of shoots and ladders!" If you haven't been GO and if you have been I know you agree with me! It would even be fun for a group of adults...hmmm...small group trip...I think so!
Matthew had a blast and so did we!
The entire museum is an old deserted building
and all of the building materials inside are recycled.
(Sorry for the not-so-great picture quality. The lighting inside wasn't ideal.)
Yes, this is an old plane and firetruck just literally hanging out!
Yes, this is wayyyyy past Matthew's nap!
There were several walls covered with old stamps. There must of been 1,000,000 metal restaurant containers lining the walls.
Apparently, there is an entire roof to the museum with more things to do, like a Ferris Wheel. We did not venture out on the roof or see the World Aquarium but I have a feeling we will be going back soon.
We then went to check into our hotel. To be completely honest I was scared to death because we had booked it on Hotwire. I guess Patrick has always booked hotels through Hotwire but it is a little scary. When you search for hotels it doesn't actually tell you the name of the hotel you are looking at. Apparently, that is how they can get them for cheap, because you aren't buying the name. I was for sure we were going to end up at some dirty, scary place but it wasn't at all! We stayed at the Crown Plaza, downtown St. Louis, right across from the arch, and the pool was on the roof! I couldn't of asked for a better place to spend the night.
Our room was huge and had a great view.
We were on the 22nd floor and Matthew loved pushing all of the buttons on the elevator!
We enjoyed a great dinner with one of Patrick's good friends from Valpo, Al Clark.
She took us to an Irish Pub not too far from our hotel and we had a great time catching up with her. We will be seeing her, and many more Valpo friends very soon, when we take a long weekend vacation to the Dells in the beginning of August.
We went back to the hotel and enjoyed the rest of the night in the pool.
We were planning on hitting the Arch Tuesday morning before we headed back but it was just too hot. It was 105 with a heat advisory of 115. TOO HOT! So we went back to the pool and then got home just in time to eat dinner and take Matthew to VBS.
A little photo collage!
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I enjoyed reading your blog post and seeing your family pics! I can't believe how big Matthew is getting!!! Look forward to seeing you guys in Wisconsin! ~Ashley
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