St.Louis Family Trip 8.15-16.2009

The Lengachers, Waglers and Grabers went on a weekend trip to St. Louis. We left Montgomery about 7:15am. The Lengachers drove their van and the Waglers and Grabers drove Grandpas big green van....We didn't all fit in the big van with luggage!!

Josh and Lola - the garmin kept us on track and got us where we needed to go!!

The first stop was Grants Farm. It turned out to be a neat place and it was free!! When we got into the park we got on a shuttle and we had about a 10-15 minute ride and got to see all kinds of wildlife - deer, ostriches, long horn steers, flamingos, love birds and elk to name a few. Then we got off the shuttle in the middle of the park where we saw huge turtles, kangaroos, eagles, monkeys, snakes, chickens and goats! It was also 1 of 2 places in the world where they keep and breed the Budweiser Clydesdale Horses..they are huge and beautiful horses. They had 2 shows - elephant encounter and animal encounter that was interesting.

Jordan and Kayla watching the elephant show......

Emily, Jordan, Eric, Josh, Damon and John waiting for the big group to move on.....

Damon and Eric....

Damon and Jeremy.........

Judy and Ethan......

Chic and Jan.......

Ernie and I.....Eric said that only teenagers take pics of themselves!!

The Bald Eagle at the animal show....

The huge turtle!!

The chicken with hairy feet!!

Ethan talked mom into buying a bottle of milk to feed the goats, it was pretty funny to watch when they all came after him for the bottle!!

We went to a Cardinals game that evening, we sat in the sun for about the first hour and it was 91 degrees..it was hot needless to say!! Emily had a ticket to the game before we decided to go so she sat with the Bethel youth. Jeremy got him a snow cone.....

Eric, John and Judy........

Now the Lengachers were acting like teenagers!!

Sunday morning we went to the Gateway Arch, the kids were looking forward to going to the top but there was a 3 hour wait, so we didn't stay. Chics headed home and we went to the Bass Pro Shop for awhile.

Some of the kids by the Mississippi River.....Emily, Jordan, Josh, Kayla, Damon and Jeremy.

Acting silly......

The Lengachers.......

Emily, Jordan and Kayla on the stair steps.....

The Grabers.......

Acting silly again....

The handsome driver with one of his boys shades on!!!!

Everyone was tired on the way home...especially Judy, Eric and John - they made a trip to the ER from 2:30am to 6:30am. Eric woke up having trouble breathing for being croupy....after 4 breathing treatments they dismissed him.

It was a fun weekend and I think everyone enjoyed it...but we did have a few teenagers that were biting at the bits to get home!! Linda