Before I get started, did y’all happen to notice that somebody from the City Museum commented on the previous trip report? I love the Internet! Maybe this post will get the mayor to comment. Lord knows I’ve spent hours telling the Internet about their city – it’s the least they could do!
Day 3 (and our [...]

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6 January 2009

Holiday Break, part 5: St. Louis trip, day 2

On Saturday, December 27, we headed out to the Arch. The temps were unseasonably warm and we just had to walk a couple of blocks to get there.
View from the patio area at our hotel.
Walking toward the Arch
At the base of the Arch
Once inside, we got tickets to attend the movie to explain how the [...]

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5 January 2009

Holiday Break, part 5: St. Louis trip, day 1

I had long, long, LONG been wanting to go on a train trip and wish the US had trains that ran as efficiently as Europe to make it easier to do so. Every time I had checked previously, it was going to be too expensive and take way too long so we’d never done it. [...]

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4 January 2009

Holiday Break, part 4: Christmas Day

As usual, Christmas morning was spent with everybody awake except Blake. We wait for him every year. Opposite of many families, I know.
Santa leaves gifts out in our family so the kids can see them right away. Everybody (including my parents and even their dog) has stockings so we open those after the kids have [...]

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4 January 2009

Holiday Break, part 3: December 24

We got up on Christmas Eve and my mom had made us a wonderful breakfast – pineapple, raspberries, cherries, sausage, biscuits, quiche and peach nectar. Beautiful. Yummy. I love my mom’s food!
After breakfast, I spent a few hours working on a scrapbook of Nick and Celeste’s wedding shower that was way overdue and I wanted [...]

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4 January 2009

Holday Break, part 2: December 23

We arrived at my mom and dad’s house on December 23. Their house is so lovely at Christmas with their gorgeous tree, beautiful Christmas dishes and my mom’s villages that she has setup.
Blake is enamored with the villages.
We got unpacked and then it was time for me to dive right into a dreaded task: wrapping [...]

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