Friday we hung around the hotel most of the day. We had arrived late Thursday night (around 11:30 pm), so we met up with two other families at breakfast. NBC Nightly News had a crew there, so they did a couple on-camera interviews and we all chatted most of the morning before heading out to the pool. It was soooo hot, and the pool was quite refreshing. We ordered pizza for lunch. A couple other families arrived mid-afternoon after we’d had our pizza, but I didn’t get a chance to chat with them much, as Elijah and Josephine were pretty much falling asleep standing up! So we headed for a nap around 2. Jock & Kaylen came up a little later and we all rested until it was time to meet for the evening activity.
Sorry - no photos of Elijah & Josephine actually in the pool because we were in the pool with them when they were.
Kaylen had a lot of fun playing with Patricia on the trip - one of our Haitian-Minnesotan friends.We took (and NBC Nightly News filmed) a group photo in the lobby,
(will post the group photo soon)
before heading downtown for a picnic and an outdoor concert. The kids had fun playing in the water spray, courtesy of the St Louis Fire Department, and the adults chatted (and some played in the water as well), while we listened to the Sara Bareilles.
There was supposed to be fireworks that night too, but because of the Mississippi River flooding, they’d moved the concert from the levee to further “inland”, and they cancelled the fireworks. We were all kind of sad, because they would have been gorgeous over the river, in the National Park surrounding the Gateway Arch. Oh well, probably just as well, because Josephine is afraid of fireworks.
The kids were so tired - they slept good that night!
No comments:
Post a Comment