Meet me in St. Loui...Loui...

We had a reall great time in St. Louis, visiting with our family. It's always nice to see everyone, and catch up on the missed hugs, kisses, and conversations. We weren't there very long(Thu-Mon), but by the time Sun. rolled around, I know I was more than ready to make my way back to San Diego...home sweet home. We pretty much just spent the weekend hanging out and relaxing. The weather was great, the day we got in was a little warm and muggy, but a storm came through on Friday evening, with tornado warnings for the surrounding areas, and all. We got some thunder and lightning, but it as shortlived, and cooler weather followed for the rest of the weekend. I even had a scare... I drove my sister and sister-in-law over to my Grandma Drury's house to spend the night, and on the way back to my Grandma Edward's house, a huge branch off a tree almost took my rental car out...I was a little shaken, but glad to get back!
We got to go to my childhood frozen custard place, Fritz's freeze, which was super yummy, and we of course hit up Steak and Shake,White Castle(or as I like to call it, diarreah in a box) and Cracker Barrel for a breakfast. We went to my childhood home(which my Dad built, he also built the neighboring homes), and the people who lived there even let me and my sister Kathryn in to take a peek. Let's say it was MUCH smaller than we remembered, but all in all, the same. We took a walk around the block, and over to the school I attended for Kindergarten and 1st grade. Rory played on the playground, and I walked around the school, and it was soooo weird, but a vent that had air coming out gave me a whiff of the inside of the school, and I'll tell ya, it smells EXACTLY the same as it did 20+ years ago!! Blast from the past...isn't it funny that you remember smells? Both of my Gransparents homes have very distinct smells, too, and I'll never forget them. It was weird driving around Florissant(the suburb we lived in), it almost felt like home, but not quite. It's no San Diego. ;)
My sister-in-laws couldn't get over how green it is there, and it is beautiful, but weird to see nothing in the distance because it's so flat. I'm used to looking off at the rolling foothills and mountains that surround us here, even though it's brown.
And it's fun living somewhere that you can brag about, or have poeple say"why the heck are you here if you can be in San Diego?" It gave me a new appreciation for where we live.
Anyways, as much fun as we had, it was wonderful to get home, we missed Micah so much(Rory whined about how he missed Daddy almost 20 times a day, that got old really quick!). Micah got to live it up while we were gone, and got a nice Friday and Saturday of playing disc golf, so hopefully he enjoyed it. Here's some pictures from our trip.

Rory on the plane ride over...he had a view of the turbine on the way there.
Rory and Great Grandma Drury.

Hanging out at Grandma Drury's house.

Sydney taking her sink bath.

Talking with long time neighbor Mrs. Price.

Bonus shot of Kathryn.

Sydney and Great Grandma Honey.Grandpa, Sydney, my cousin Grace, and Grandma

Rory and Grace playing

Rory out on the porch at Grandma Honey's.

Aunt Kasey and Rory

Sydney hanging out.

We had a family barbecue on Saturday, all of my aunts/uncles came except my Mom's oldest sister(we got to see her Sunday).

I like my grandpa in the back, he looks so stern!

Rory in front of our old log house(my Dad built this). We planted those trees in the front when we were little...they were tiny little trees back then!

My old school, Halls Ferry Elementary.

Rory going down to the playground at the school.

Front of the school, hasn't changed!!