Friday, November 25, 2011
Our last day in St. Louis. We woke up early (for us on vacation) and went down to Main Street in St. Charles. St. Charles is the suburb of St. Louis where Steve grew up, and the Historic Main Street is a special place for his family. If you click here it will take you to the St. Charles website and a picture of my Father-in-Law.
They have fun Christmas Traditions on Main Street, and this was the opening day. We went for the opening ceremony where Santa and all the other characters came in.
All the characters have their own cards that the kids can collect. Our girls had fun going around to all the characters and collecting cards.
St. Charles was the first state capitol for Missouri. It is the third oldest city West of the Mississippi. And it was the last "civilized" stop for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Here are the kids and Heidi by a Lewis and Clark statue that is right by the Missouri River.
Everyone else had things to do that morning so we were by ourselves on Main Street. By the time we were done, everyone was getting ready to meet up for our next adventure. We stopped for lunch at Taco Bell and the kids were able to fulfill their plans of a flash mob where they sang and did the actions to the "Taco Bell" camp song they had been singing all week.
Then we all went to Sheila's Dad's house. He has property where we could shoot guns, and Steve was itching to try out his new gun Mike had brought to him. We spent a couple of hours shooting.
Emily, Spencer, Zac, Sierra and Asher
It's pictures like these that make me so sad that the cousins, who have so much fun together, live so far apart.
Meagan and Aubrey
Ed helping Addy shoot
Ed helping Addy shoot
Steve and Emily
Steve and Aubrey
Zac
Emily, Meagan, Asher and Sierra
Zac trying out Asher's Bow. He has been begging me ever since to buy him one.
After we got our guns on, we went to Steve's Dad's house for our Thanksgiving Dinner.
Amanda and her fiance were able to come from Illinois to be with us.
We stayed at Grandpa's house until late that night. It was our last time to all be together on this trip. We played games, at one point we had the majority of us playing the wii dance game together. We ate, we talked, we laughed. We just had fun being together.
All of us playing wii Just Dance 3
Zac saying good-bye to Uncle Mike
Saying good-bye to our hosts, the Hobbs, the next day before we rolled out of town. 
I look at this picture and see a bunch of cute kids, but it reminds me of how I felt that morning, and that wasn't good. This was the day I woke up and tried to pack us up but I could hardly move. I didn't know it at the time, but I was coming down with bronchitis. And here I am 22 days later, and I still haven't fully recovered. Oh well. I'm sure one day I will be back to "normal".
It was a fun trip. We had a blast. We loved being with family. The kids had so much fun with their cousins. It will provide us with fun memories for years to come. I am so thankful we were able to go.
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