I write to myself quite a bit. I’m on page 3429 of my journal, and I have a journal blog that I just keep for myself, or anyone I give a password to. Which so far is nobody. Also, it’s for the NSA to know what an upstanding citizen I am. So I realized that this blog entry from my deep dark secret blog would probably be enjoyed by some family and some friends. Here you go.

Mostly I Want to write about our trip to St. Louis last Friday (note, I wrote this 6/26/13). I’m doing it on My new Galaxy Note 8 tablet. It’s recognizing my handwriting, and converting it to text. It’s pretty accurate, but is very annoying to try to correct typos. Also, there are typos in my handwriting now. But it’s still pretty cool.
So last Friday, we headed to St. Louis on a family trip. It made me desire my trip with Shannon at the end of July all the more. I like St. Louis, and miss living there…Sometimes. But I do really like living in Cape. We couldn’t live in a house like we do if we were still in St. Louis, that’s for sure.
We loaded up the car and left about 10 am. We got to the City Museum about noon. Shannon had never been there before, and was immediately overwhelmed. We started off by heading to the 1st floor…I don’t even know what you call it. World’s most elaborate jungle gym? The big whale? I don’t know, but it is elaborate. Lots of climbing and crawling. Easy to lose a child. We didn’t. The whole day. We didn’t lose a child. We did misplace Sam for a short time, but found him pretty quickly, but that was toward the end of the day. We started with the whale and the “Enchanted Caves.”
From there we had some lunch. We ate there at the museum. Very tasty food. The boys had grilled cheese made with pretzel bread. lt was so good, but of course they wouldn’t eat it. Crazy. Erin had a sandwich, and Shannon and I had a very tasty pizza.
After that, we roamed. Enjoyed the skateless skate park, the shoelace factory, the model train set (that has a tornado!!!!) (Super psychy!), and the Beatnik cafe.
We eventually made our way up to the roof, and spent quite a while up there. There’s a big slide that Sam & Ben went down several times, and then there’s the Ferris wheel. But unfortunately, it was very hot. So, while it was an enjoyable experience, while the views of downtown were great, we were sweating like nothing else. So we closed our time on the roof with ice water, Gatorade, and (for the kids) ice cream.
From there, the boys REALLY wanted to go play on the airplane, so I took them out and we climbed up into the airplane. To get to the airplane, you must climb up through towers and steel wire tunnels, and go up 3 or 4 Stories up.
And then, the boys played in the ball pit.
We closed with a trip to the gift shop where Erin got a shirt, Sam got Sea Monkeys, Nate got a school bus, Ben got a tape measure, Shannon got a purse, and I got Magic Rocks.
We ate supper at Chevy’s in Des Peres.
We made it home about 8:30 in the evening. Overall, it was a great day.