St. Louis

Memorial Day weekend-a long weekend-the start of summer-what could be better than a mini vacation and some baseball?

We headed to St. Louis Saturday and stayed until Sunday night. We caught the last game of the Royals v Cardinals series. The Royals has lost the first two games of the season so we were not planning on much of a game. I am happy to say the Royals avoided the sweep. We won 3-2. Thank goodness. We happily put on our Royals gear and heard time and time again at the stadium how it was nice of us to come watch the sweep. Urrr!! Don't worry we walked out of Bush Stadium with our head held high and smiles ear to ear.

When we got there Saturday we headed straight for the Magic house. This is a memory for me as a kid. I loved this place. I was very happy to see that they have added on to the original building-more than doubling it from when I was a kid and the inside is now bright and cheery, instead of that lovely 70's brown I remember. The rooms are totally different and fun for all. Everyone had a really great time. I think we are going to have to head back for a longer visit. They practically had to kick us out at closing time!

They have a Once Upon a Time display. The kids loves the Beauty and Beast display.

The Magic House is probably most famous for the electric ball that makes your hair stand up. Lucas is sure that if he had a mohawk it would have worked better. Everyone but Addi thought her hair was awesome!!

The Magic House is about 20 minutes from downtown. As we left Lucas started to ask about the arch. If he could see it from the car, what it was made of, who put it together, if they ever take it down, if it goes over the river, when were we going to take him down there, what do they use it for, why did they put it in St. Louis.............and on..........and on...............and on..............we had just learned that the average 5 year old asks 437 questions a day. I am pretty sure Lucas was above average at age 5. It did not say how many a 6.5 year old asked but I am pretty sure it is not less!! He finally got to see the arch from the car. He was impressed at how large it was. From the time we got to the hotel it was a major delima for him to decide swimming or arch. Addi was no assistance as she had her heart set on swimming and swimming only. The mean parents opted for Old Spaghetti Factory. It was within walking distance and man those meatballs are awesome.

Addi was on board with the if you eat your spaghetti you can go swimming plan. That spaghetti was basically inhaled and the stomach was close to exploding but she got to go swimming. We did walk back to the hotel via the arch so Lucas was happy. It was dark by then and hard to see so we told him we would come back Sunday morning.

Sunday after breakfast where Freebird (Cardinals mascot) made a visit, we headed to the arch for the inside tour. Oops, major problem the next tour was not until noon. Too close to the game for us to go. I thought Lucas was going to do a happy dance. He was not pleased with the plan of actually going up to the top. His interest ended at ground level!!



A nice river walk-well almost- the river is at flood stage and the city crews were trying to get the mud from the water that had washed up on the sidewalk and road back to the river. Addi and I thought it was very yucky. Lucas thought it was mud puddle heaven!!

Over to the game for what turned out to be a 9th inning victory-thank goodness.
A brief glove handling lesson. Don't worry Lucas assured Addi he would catch a foul ball for her if it came in front of her.

Back home after dinner-did I mention I could not imagine road tripping without a DVD player?? Now we just have to get Addi use to wearing headphones so we can listen to the radio-but no complaints with the current plan!!