Tuesday, November 22, 2011
On Tuesday while all the cousins were in school, we took the kids downtown to see the arch. Steve's sister Heidi came with us. I think the last time we went to the arch was when Emily was a baby. So even though the memory of the arch is seared into my claustrophobic brain, none of my kids really knew anything about it. It was a freezing cold rainy day down by the river.
We had no plans on going up in the arch (I've been up twice and that is 2 times too many for me). But when we got there Steve couldn't believe that his kids had never been. So he wanted to take them up. They had this model of the sweet little pod you slowly ride up the narrow little arch in as you hope and pray that the power doesn't go out and you don't get stuck somewhere in the middle of the arch clawing out your pod mates eyes as you gasp for your next breath. I explained to the kids that if they wanted to go up the arch, this is what they would have to go in, five people at a time, knees touching and all. After my pep talk, Emily and Aubrey were the only ones who opted to go up.
So Steve took the girls up and Heidi, Zac, Addy and I hung out in the museum downstairs. Here is the view they had from the top of the arch.
Steve and the girls up top. The height of 630 feet and the gentle swaying motion of the arch having no effect on them what so ever.
The Arch Museum
I found this quote from one of the Wright brothers interesting. It says, "When my brother and I built and flew the first man-carrying flying machine, we thought that we were introducing into the world an invention which would make further wars practically impossible..."
Steve, Emily, Zac, Addy, Aubrey and Heidi in front of the Old Court House . This is where the Dred Scott case and the Virginia Minor case were tried.
Dred Scott
Emily in one of the courtrooms
On our way back across the river. Each time we crossed a bridge the kids picked their feet up, held their breath, put their arms above their head and crossed their fingers.
FREEDOM! All the kids were finally out of school for Thanksgiving break so we were without school night bedtimes! We all met at Steve and Heather's house and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows and had a roaring good time. While we were sitting out by the fire the girls kept us entertained by singing camp songs.
Aubrey and Addy hangin' with Uncle Steve
It turned into a crazy free for all
On the way home from downtown we stopped and rented a dance game for the wii. This was the first night of many endless nights of dancing. We also rented the new Modern Warfare game for the boys so they are in another room on a 2nd wii playing that.
One of our family's favorite pastimes. Playing Farkle. Only we have been playing it a lot longer than any of you have been playing it on facebook (back when it was known as 10,000) and we play by the real rules, not the facebook rules as poor Cody found out. Don't mess with us and our farkle. Snap.
Heather and Addy
1 comment:
Your children look almost as tall as me in the dancing picture. Wonderful.
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