Mini-Vacay

So, we're in St. Louis now! We arrived yesterday morning at the godforsaken time of 8am. I say godforsaken because do you know what it means when you've arrived in StL after a 90 min. flight? That's right, it means you've had to get up at 3:30am so that you could leave by 4:30am so that you could get to the airport by 5am to make a 6:30am flight. Ugh. Thank goodness for free doughnuts provided by Southwest since McD's didn't open until 6am and we were already boarded by then.

We went to the Art Museum yesterday which was great (and free!). I thought we were going to be able to see this cool Napolean exhibit for free (free on Fri.'s) but, yeah, it doesn't open until tomorrow. Bummer. We were also going to go to the Zoo (also free!) but it closed at 2pm (we think for a private party) and since we had just arrived at Forest Park at noon (after making a lovely detour to Mom's Deli, hooray!!) and still had to eat said sandwiches a la picnic style AND since it was 93 degrees out, we had to forego the Zoo. But that's ok, since we went today! We were there at 9:15am (though it opened at 8am) and didn't leave until 1:45! It was great! We always see things that we've never seen before. This time, apparently, the mating scene was upon us (i.e. wild asses, tortoises and dwarf mongooses--mongeese? I don't know). It was very...interesting...to see all this frolicking. Anyway, we had a good time. I think I got some sun on my shoulders. It's all good. Now we're just waiting for my parents to get home so we can go to Trivia Night and you KNOW we love our trivia!! More StL trip blogging to come later, I'm sure.

Oh also, we had our 4th wedding anniversary on Thurs.!!! It's hard to believe it's been 4 years already but there you go! I'll post pics later of the earrings and flowers Michael got me. They're all gorgeous. I still have the most wonderful guy in the world!

And I adopted a warthog in his name from the Dallas Zoo as my present to him. I'm so thoughtful.