St. Louis

Last weekend Patrick and Henry and I took a little mini-trip to St. Louis for the night. We were able to get a great deal on a hotel since it was the last minute and we got a suite with two rooms with a door in between. That worked out perfectly because we were thinking the whole family would have to go to bed at 7:30 otherwise! We went to the St.Louis zoo on Saturday. Henry's absolute favorite thing there were the elephants. When we left the elephants he kept saying, "more". He just wanted more and more elephants! On Sunday we went to Grant's Farm. We took a tram ride around the park where they have free roaming cows, sheep, goats, elk, deer, buffalo, and zebras (weird but true). Henry thought we were on a train and was so excited. He said choo choo almost the whole way. Then we went to a children's museum called the Magic House. They have an outdoor exhibit that's filled with sand and lots of different kinds of trucks, dump trucks, tractors and diggers (little ones) and then one real digger that the children can get into and pretend to drive. This was his dream. He didn't even want to explore the rest of the museum, but eventually we made our way inside since it was such a hot day. It was a really fun getaway and I will say that St. Louis is a great place to visit and very affordable. The zoo and Grant's Farm were free for all of us.
(I'll post some cute movies soon!)