We had a great time the rest of the time we were in St. Louis! We spent a lot of time just hanging out with Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Angie and Uncle Doug. Travis's sister Rachael was even able to join us for a few days while she took her oldest son Trent and a few of his friends to Warped Tour in St. Louis. Me and Jan even started a t-shirt quilt with all of my old t-shirts from Elementary School through College! We didn't quite get it done, but saved it for the next time we're visiting!
McKinley even got her first haircut while we were there by Grandma! Her hair was getting a little crazy and her bangs would always hang in her face, so I figured it was about time to cut it. She did really well and was still through the whole cut! You can see below how cute her hair looked afterwards! We were sure to save a cute little curly lock of her hair from her first cut.
We even made the trek out to the St. Louis Zoo while we were there. They have a great zoo in St. Louis and it was so much fun to take McKinley there, despite the blistering heat! The days we were in St. Louis they were having record-breaking hot days, and it was very hot to be out in. We tried to go early to the zoo to beat the heat, which was not possible! We only spent a couple of hours at the zoo since it was so hot! We still got to see some very fun animals! Here's McKinley on Daddy's shoulders checking out the Rhinos!
Here she is asking where the hippo went. It was swimming around and had just gone under water. You can kind of see the top of it's head in this picture. The hippos were really neat and fun to see!
We even got to see elephants there, McKinley's favorite animal! She loved seeing the "e-fants"! They were really neat! They were swimming around in the water and squirting water on them with their trunks to stay cool!
We then went over to see the penguins. We got to go inside a cold building to see the penguins which was nice on such a hot day! McKinley kept saying "cold, cold" and snuggling up against me because it was quite the contrast to the hot temperatures outside! The penguins were neat and fun to watch swim and walk all around!
We ended our zoo visit with a ride on the train. McKinley loves trains and said "choo, choo!" the whole train ride! We loved the St. Louis Zoo and look forward to going back on another visit!
On Saturday we went over to the Car Show to see Doug's Mustang that he had on display there. They also had some firetrucks on display there that McKinley got to climb inside! We didn't spend long at the car show, because once again it was super hot outside, but it was still fun to see Doug's car and walk around for a minute!
We were sad to leave and head home! On the way back to Lincoln, we were ready to get out and walk around as we were driving through Kansas City. We decided to stop at the temple grounds and walk around a bit. It was nice to stretch our legs and enjoy the beautiful scenery!
We had so much fun and look forward to our next visit to St. Louis!
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