St. Louis, MO 2006

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We made a couple of different trips to St. Louis this year to visit Jerry and watch him play ball. This was a stuffed bear at the hotel we were staying in. We like to stay at this place, because we get great deals on the rooms through Hotwire.

This is at the St. Louis City Museum. It's a children's museum, but is fun for all ages!

 

There was an aquarium in the museum.

 

 

Joey always goofs around!

 

A whole bunch of turtles warming themselves under the lamp.

There are all sorts of nooks and crannies to climb at this place.

There was a little shop where shoelaces of all colors were made, and you could watch the machines weaving them.

Judy needed a new set of shoe strings. University of Tulsa colors!

So long to the old ones!

 

 

 

This bird was the craziest thing you've ever seen. Jerry tried to touch it and it went bonkers. Watch the video in the video section of this CD.

 

 

Hmm... What are the turtles doing? As soon as the boys saw this, the camera phones went berserk!

 

Dave slides down a plexiglas tube that runs through the water.

Here comes Dad, feet first.

Dave stands inside a compartment that is inside a tank where fish are.

 

Judy tries on the underwater gear. She was the only one small enough to fit inside.

 

The boys are sitting in front of the world's largest underpants -- with a 100 inch waistband!

One of the goofy things around the museum.

 

There were bars near the gift shop. While mom is shopping, Davey looks like he's in jail!
Please!!! Get me outta here! Make mom shop faster!
This is at Wash U. and is known as the big dig. It will be an underground parking garage.
This was a visit when we went over for Jerry's birthday. We took Jerry and some of his college buddies out to dinner.
Dinner was at Friday's. Note the decor.
It seems like just yesterday that this was a little baby. Here he is, practically grown up!
This is at Jerry's freshman dorm.
We went over to a Lewis and Clark museum in a little, renovated town, St. Charles, that is a suburb of St. Louis. This is a model of the fort.
Decendents of William Clark.
Joey is goofing around as usual.
There was an exhibit of the medicines that Lewis and Clark would have had for their adventure.
The museum is on the bank of the Missouri River.
We are at Jerry's game.
It was FREEZING that weekend, but we stuck it out.
This is a statue near the Wash U. campus. The boys say it looks like the horse is pooping.
One of the weekends we went to St. Louis, we met Vlado and Milé Kanazirev, our Bulgarian friends. Here is a picture at the Kirkwood farmer's market we visited before the Kanazirev's got to St. Louis.
We took the Kanazirev's to the St. Louis Botanical Garden. There was a Dale Chihuly glass exhibit there. This is a piece hanging in the main building.
Here we are with Vlado and Mile.
Fabulous plants.
Joe and Dave were bored.
There were ponds with statues and huge Chihuly glass balloons floating in the water.
Under the dome you can see in the background is a tropical setting.
The glass mixed in with the plants was gorgeous.
Now we are in the tropical dome. Enjoy some pictures of the glass and flora.
These pieces of glass art were for sale and priced at about $30,000 each.
GO LSU yeah!!!
She's not for sale.
Mile really enjoyed the flowers.
Way in the back, there is a Japanese style bridge. Underneath is a piece of glass hanging beneath the bridge.
Here is a closer photo of that glass chandelier under the bridge.
Ducks on the pond.
Huge koi in the pond wanted food.
So did the ducks.
Look at the sunburst above the trellis in the rose garden!
We ate in an Italian restaurant on the Hill. If you stood up and left the table, the waiters would come along and fold your napkin in a fancy manner. Joey put it on his head like a hat.
We went over to St. Charles for breakfast on Sunday morning.