We walked to Navy Pier and went on the ferris wheel, notice no fear Cade, leaning over the edge and almost giving us a heart attack when I am trying to take their pictures!! They loved it and wanted to go again, and again! We ate at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. Great food! They even had face painting there and Colin got his face painted like Batman. Black paint is hard to get off if anyone wants to know! Because they were so good at dinner, they got to ride the Thomas train a couple of times too. Then, we headed back the many miles back to our hotel. We had lots of fun!
Funny story...at our hotel, Cade didn't want to go to bed. This was at 9:00. He was overtired and screamed for less than a minute. About 2 minutes later...knock on the door. Hotel management...we've had a complaint about a child screaming in your room, can you please hold it down in there? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? It is 9:00, not midnight, and it was less than a minute! So, I don't think we will be going back there any time soon! ha!
The next day, we got up and went to The Shedd Aquarium. I haven't been there forever, and knew the boys would love it. Just an FYI for anyone that goes there in the future. It was cheaper to buy the year long pass if you plan on going back in the same year. It was going to cost us around $70 to get in and the year long pass I purchased was $115...for the whole year! Plus, you get discounts on food, purchases, etc. there too. What a deal! So, we have to go back sometime this year to make it worth while, which I am sure we will do! :)
Colin and Cade loved the animals there. Penguins were a big hit! I don't know if you can see the fish behind the glass or not, but there is one of Cade with a huge whale staring right at him. Next time, I will have to remember to turn my flash off when I take pictures! Another stroller picture (can you tell we like it?) and a hilarious "chheeese" pic from Cade!
We got home from Chicago and made the split decision to go to St. Louis the next day to visit one of our favorite people, cousin Wade. He lives downtown STL and we love visiting him there. We went to the zoo and had lots of fun looking at the animals. It was hot, but not too hot like it usually is when we go down there. We even rode the train that goes through the zoo this time and had lots of fun riding through tunnels and seeing more of the zoo.
We went to lunch and then to the arch. We were going to go up but it was so crowded and such a long wait, we decided we just will have to go visit STL again...bummer! :) Wade and Colin were trying to climb the arch at Colin's request. :) We walked through the parks that had the All Star arches (notice we had to find the Cubs on the arch!) We even played in the water fountain too.
We headed home after the arch trip and Steve and Colin took off late evening to head to the Indy race with the guys in my family. Whew...long couple of days, lots of traveling...but so much fun!
5 comments:
Wow, you guys have been busy. It looks like you had so much fun.
What fun trips! I had heard about these from you, but it was even more fun to see the pictures to go with them. :) Jay about had a heart attack with the Cade ferris wheel pictures. You know him and heights! Ha ha ha! I called him into the room just to look at them. Glad you guys enjoyed some fun family time.
Aww! Love the pics. I was intrigued about the stroller after you had said you got it :)
what fun trips. so funny you got a complaint about your crying baby didn't we used to get in trouble for partying too hard
Your trips looked like so much fun! You have two fun cities within driving distance! It' so funny to hear about all of the St.Louis adventures you have. I lived there for the better part of my life and haven't done much of that stuff. I guess we just took it for granted?! Your boys are as cute as ever! I can tell you had a fun summer. Are you ready for school to start?
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