St. Louis Trip

We went to our Leadership Convention that we attend 3 times a year and this time it happened to be in St. Louis, MO at the Edward Jones Dome. I don't know how many people were there, but it was at least 20 or 30,000 I think. It was so much fun. We took so many notes from all the great speakers and learned so much.

But it was so cold. When we landed on Wednesday, it was 18 degrees out. The shuttle driver taking us to pick up the rental car warned us of the snow storm that was to hit that night and held up an ice scraper. He said to make sure we had one in our rental. I joked around and said "what's that, we don't have those in AZ".

Here is Kurt and I all bundled up in the snow. I had to get a new coat before we left so I wouldn't freeze. My mom lent me her new snow boots to keep my feet warm. I wore them every day, even with my skirt to the convention. I didn't care what I looked like as long as I was warm.

Everything was so beautiful and white. Here is a pond starting to freeze over.

This is the famous Gateway Arch. It was definitely not what I was expecting. 630 feet tall!

This is from the bottom looking up. The picture doesn't even do it justice. We did the tour to the top. You ride up in a little pod thing. It was neat... not for the chlostrophobic though!

Here we are with some friends at the top. Not our whole group, but just who we grabbed at the moment.

This is looking down from the top. It was so high up there! So neat.

We also went to the City Museum that was a few blocks from the arch. When we got there, one of the greeters told us that it was a requirement to leave our "adult" faces at the coat check and act like a kid again. And let me tell you, we did. It was 3 stories and everything was made out of recycled materials. The outdoor adventure and the caves were closed due to weather. We were there for hours and didn't even get to see everything.

Here we are being funny. There was also a monster slide that brought you from the 3rd floor down to the first. That beat the stairs anyday. We went with our friends Robert and Erika and I think we all had a blast. There were ropes to swing from, a snowflake cutting area where we got to cut out snowflakes that are in the shapes of animals while the lady told us a story. There was an aquarium where we could touch the sting rays and other creatures.

Here is the world's largest underwear. Ewwww, I don't want to do his laundry.


And here's a little video we took. Cracked me up. There were a ton of skateboarding ramps and things like that, but no skateboards, so we ran on them by foot. It was hard to keep your balance in this circle, especially while trying to run in boots. I guess I was going too slow because I got ran over by my husband! :) Being a kid again was a good workout too... All that running around and goofing off was just wonderful for the soul! I wish we could have seen what else this museum had to offer, but we ran out of time. If we're ever in St. Louis again, we'll definitely go back.

It is good to be home though. Makes me appreciate our weather a tad bit more. I don't think I could deal with the snow every day. It was a nice break though. We took so many more photos, but you get the idea!