From Zoos to Snooze

So this past week, Chris had Spring Break so we decided to take an overnight trip to St. Louis. (Good timing because I think I really needed a break from Champaign Land- it has been cold and overcast-ee lately). So on Thursday we packed up the car and headed out. We must be living in a barn or something because when we were about 40 min. away from our Hotel a good friend called us to inform us that St. Louis had been declared a Disaster Area- due to all of the flooding. I hadn't heard about this, but since we were so close and everything seemed fine, we decided to keep moving forward. It turns out that the flooded areas were south of where we were staying. Basically, we wouldn't have known anything was up, other than watching the St. Louis news and receiving a phone call from a friend. This is why we need to get out more.

The day we arrived, Chris and I took turns going to the Temple (St. Louis) while the other watched Grant. Later that night we went out to dinner and then thought it would be fun to take Grant swimming. Unfortunately we forgot to take our camera to document Grant's most serious face ever. He wrapped his arms around either Chris or my shoulders the whole time and never cracked a smile. But we think that he actually enjoyed it, otherwise he would have cried. Who knows what was going through his mind, he was probably wondering why the bathtub was so big and why there were ten other people in it. Poor Kid.

Anyway, to give you a brief look into how our vacation went, enjoy the following photos.


The seriousness continued the next day when we took Grant to the Zoo. (This is in front of the Hippo exhibit. At least Chris looks like he enjoyed it.)


This is my favorite exhibit-Penguins! It is an indoor, climate, controlled room with 4 different types of penguins (King Penguins behind us). So we bundled Grant up and even got splashed a few times by diving penguins. He was really taken by the penguins, especially since we were so close.


In the Insect Room there were a lot of gross/cool bugs. An animal keeper brought out this "Leafy Bug" (I Spy- The Movie). It is a relative to the Walking Stick bug. And it turns out they have never found a male of this species so they are called... uh...some scientific name I can't remember.



We were really fortunate because the weather really turned out beautiful. It was around 71 degrees at the zoo. Since Grant gets his pasty-ness from me, we had to buy him this cute little bucket hat to keep the sun off of his neck and face. PS. this was the only smile we caught on camera for the entire trip.


Chris loves Elephants! The elephant in the background is just over a year and half old. When we came to the zoo last year she was so much smaller.

Ten minutes after we got in the car Grant zonked out, which made the trip home really easy. Sweet dreams little cutie pie.

Happy Easter!

This was Grant's first Easter, so we were excited to give him an Easter Basket. We gave him a bath tugboat, which he is showing off in our really new looking bathtub.