Fall Break (Part 2)

 As I said in my last post, we had to leave at 5:30 AM from Branson to make the ~4 hour trip to make it to Stephen's 10 AM meeting!  The sunrise didn't disappoint...

We made it to St. Louis and dropped Stephen off at the customer's office.  The kids and I headed across the Missouri River to a quaint town called St. Charles!  The brick road and buildings were all 200+ years old, and it hosted the cutest little shops and restaurants.  We got to walk around here for a couple of hours before meeting Stephen and some of the work peeps for lunch.

This made me laugh.

After lunch, we checked into our hotel, hit up a mall, got Chipotle to go, and called it a night!

Friday:

Today was SYDNEY DAY!  It was her 14th birthday and we let her decide what she wanted to do today!  

We started our day off in downtown St. Louis.  We first went to see the Arch, which is surprisingly awesome... I didn't realize how massive it was!

We went by the Cardinal's baseball stadium...

We went to get brunch and Sydney got a birthday hot chocolate!

The rain began (it was also 30 degrees colder than it was in Branson!!), so we headed to a cool place called the City Museum.  This was for kids and adults and had all sorts of things to do, including a 10-story slide, tunnels and ladders and things to climb up many stories, and so much more. It was fun!  I definitely felt l needed a shower afterwards, but it was fun! ha!

We went to a place called Union Station, which had a bunch of things to do (aquarium, ferris wheel, etc).  Sydney had wanted to do one of those high rope walk things, and they had a really high one!  It was a lot of fun.

That night, we ate dinner out before heading back to the hotel.  We flew out the next morning back home!

It was SUCH a great trip!  I wish I had a few more days to recoup, but I'm thankful for a fun, safe trip.