St. Louis

Sometimes Steven and I have awesome ideas, and one of our best ideas of the summer was to visit Uncle Al and Charlotte!  We so enjoyed spending the evenings with them, catching up, and we so appreciated Charlotte's culinary talents! They look great!!!  They are great!!!

All of us loved the zoo. Polar bear!!!  We spent an entire day there and survived the sudden downpour (fortuitously for us, we were eating lunch under a huge umbrella at the time!).  We found a favorite resting bench.  Elizabeth may have found a new career.

 

All of us also loved the art museum (well, maybe I'm projecting a little of my art museum love onto the others), in part because we separately toured the exhibits while writing down answers to fascinating questions we came up with at breakfast that morning.  Questions like "Which exhibit do you think took the most time?" "Which one could you have done yourself?" "Which one reminds you of someone else in the family?" "Which is the oddest?" "Which one would you want in your room?" etc.  Can you find E and M running in the rain to the car in the photo?

Elizabeth loved going shopping with Charlotte one morning, while Michael loved going to Uncle Al's athletic facility with him (guess which guy swam and which played basketball).  During that time, Steven and I toured the Chinese Lantern exhibit at the botanical gardens.  Unbelievable.  We saw every single wire-and-silk creation in the gardens. 

We all were just so happy the whole time we were there.  Thank you for another amazing vacation, Uncle Al and Charlotte - we'll be back soon.