Last day of vacation

Our final day of vacation, the boys wanted to go to the Arch. We had an all access pass and tried to make the most of our day there!

Getting ready to go to the top.

 Getting ready to go to the top!

The stadium viewed from the top of the arch.

On to the museum . . .

I love this model of them putting in the final piece. And here are some pics of the arch that the boys and I took.

Lucas took the next few. 

Doesn't the arch normally have 2 legs??

 Eli took the next few pics.

 I love this, Eli was taking a pic of the Arch through and arch window.

After our time in the arch, we headed to the cafe for some lunch and to wait for our tour of the river.

 Doesn't Noah look like he is loving this vacation.

 Pictures of what we saw on the river.

 Just as I took this pic, Lucas's drink fell and diverted their attention.

 I love the shadows that Lucas took a pic of.

 After our boat tour, we did a little bicycle tour. Now it was hot but after some long persuading I got the boys to agree to try out the tour (we had already paid for it with our all access pass). And it was one of their favorite things that we did.

 The graffiti wall that marked our turning around point.

 The courthouse. Which we could have toured but decided it was time to go back to the hotel and have some more pool time!

Eli took this pic of Lucas and I. Lucas is showing our all access pass. It was a great vacation. We capped the night with some St Louis style pizza and had to go to bed early because our train left at 0715. We were sure ready to come home. Noah had been a little skeptical of St Louis having "anything" fun to do but has decided that coming back to go to some of the places that we didn't get to go to wouldn't be too bad!

Random pics!

Wednesday we had some specific places that we wanted to go that weren't the typical site seeing places so here are some pics from the day. First we went to Union Station to go shopping and pick up some souvenirs.  And then we hit the Hard Rock cafe for lunch and some more shopping.

 This was at union station, don't ever tell Noah he can't do something!!

 At the City Museum, we got some gooey butter cake for dessert. The boys were in L-O-V-E! So they wanted to go to the bakery that sells them. We got for cakes - and they didn't last long!

 With our netflix, we watched Man vs Food and saw him at the Candy Kitchen doing a malt challenge. He was supposed to drink 5 malts in like 45min. One malt fills their glasses nearly 3 times. Lucas said he could do the challenge ( he couldn't even finish 1/3 of his shake!!!) It was a nice way to cool off!

 We had to catch a game since the Cardinals were in town.

We had been doing so much site seeing that Thursday was our lazy day at the hotel. The boys wanted to save visiting the Arch for the last day of our vacation. So just one more post of our last day of vacation. It sure went by fast!

Day 2 Science Center

On Day 2 of vacation we went to the Science Center. It is an amazing place. We spent the day there and still didn't see everything. They have free exhibits and paid ones. So we did a little of everything. The paid exhibits have time slots so they are not overly crowded which is so nice. First up was the nano exhibit. Exploring the tiny things of our world. Eli took over being the photographer for a little while.

 Noah checking out all the things under the magnifying glass.

 A giant drop of "blood" that you can get in. Hmm ewww

 The boys had fun rolling around in the "blood".

 I peeked in to say "cheese" for Eli!

 I took over taking pics so Eli can be in the pictures.

 Lucas sizing up the big or the small of the world around us.

 This contraption used a vacuum to move the "nanos" through the machine. Lucas was in charge of vacuuming up the nanos.

 Eli was creating the vacuum.

 Pollen pinball- what do we know about pollen?

 Noah wanting his turn!

 Eli and Lucas are using a magnet to move as many balls onto the gird before 2mins is up. They got pretty good after a few practice runs.

 Noah shrinking patterns.

 We didn't go to the beach but the boys still got to write their names (or Lucas his initials) in the sand.

 Onto the dino exhibits.

 Lucas and geodes. Surprise surprise.

 The boys always enjoy the hands on. Well as long as they get to go first!

 Which way are the circles spinning????

 Noah and Lucas testing their memory.

 Lucas only switched 2 of the pics but Noah got 100% correct.

 Eli move the orange disc over and then the purple disc  . . . . .

 After lunch the boys were finally able to get into the wheel that makes this huge marble track go, they were fascinated by it! Always guessing which color would be next!

 How fast are the cars going Lucas?

 Now onto the Lego Mindstorm, we were got to build and program our own robots. We had competitions to see which robot could clear the field of all the magnetic marbles.

 Noah and Eli chose the scatter brushes for their robot.

Lucas and I chose the bar for our robot. We had several rounds with us and another family and it was a draw!
We wanted to end our day with watching the new Batman movie on the Omni Max Dome theater. It was very different and cool but unfortunately they had equipment difficulties around the last 30min so we didn't get to finish the movie. I was also unfortunate to be one of the small % to have motion sickness when watching movies on the dome. So we just got a refund since their was no guarantee they could fix it for the next showing and I wasn't sure my stomach could take it! So we caught our bus back to the hotel to enjoy some more swimming and relaxing by the pool!