st louis- pt 2.

Last Day = Obligatory Arch pic.
Even though we had no real interest of going to the arch again,
what kind of parents would we be if we didn't take you on your 1st trip to St. Louis?

We went, we saw, we took a million pictures.

 And I have absolutely no shame in asking someone to take our picture, esp. b/c I offer to take theirs first so its like I'm doing THEM the favor. ;)

After the arch, we had a little while before we had to get on the road, so we decided to hit up the zoo.

Mistake. Apparently everyone else in St. Louis had the same idea too.

So we aborted the mission & put Pappy's Smokehouse in the GPS for our final road trip mission.

 

After about a 45 minute wait, we had the best BBQ of our lives.

Eric ate himself sick!

*And since we've been home, I asked if he told his friends about Pappy's and he said yes, all of them.* ha!

 

We finally got on the road and got back home around 8:30.

It was a great little getaway weekend!

st louis - pt 1

Eleanor's first road trip.
The girl was so good!
She did 5+ hours in the car seat, with stops only for potty breaks & to eat.

A rattle, some "trash" (i.e. cardboard, wrappers, or paper) and a couple of other toys and she was CONTENT.

We got there Friday evening and decided to hang out at the hotel, grab some dinner & swim a little. The area was under a tornado warning & we even saw on the news that one of the hotels downtown got hit. It was a little more nerve racking b/c the news was saying so and so county & we had no idea what county we were in!

 

Saturday morning, our 1st stop was Grants Farm.

It was chilly when we got there & I was sweating when we left.

Eric fed some creepy goats milk out of a bottle.

They were sticking their heads through the goats & practically trampling each other to get to the milk!

We watched a parrot on roller skates, elephant do the slowest moon walk ever, shared a sno-cone & rode a merry go round.

*Note to self- take baby carrier next time because Eleanor never stays in the stroller anyways ;)*

Afterwards we ran around town, stopped at a couple thrift stores, had some lunch & got ready for Eleanor's 1st baseball (read: Giants) game!!

Quick outfit change in the car & we are ready!
Funny note, some man in a golf car offered to get us a ride to the stadium once we parked & I was in such a hurry b/c he was waiting that I forgot to pack
- PACIFER!!
- hairbow, my sunglasses, Elle's cardigan, and a few other things that we needed.
But did somehow manage to remember a rattle?

 Eric was so happy to have his girl at her first baseball game.
The Cardinals won, but that's not what he will remember.

 

 Eric said before we got there that he would be happy if she would just last 7 innings.
We stayed the whole game AND for the fireworks!
 I think she even participated in the wave a couple times?!

Ended the night with one tired little girl.
She had a big day of firsts: baseball game, merry go round, pork nachos (oh that was me), and fireworks.