Summer Fun 2009
We're over a week into the semester here, so summer is REALLY,
really over. So here are some of our adventures from the warmer months:
One of the annual highlights around here is the Four State Farm Show, with tractors and harvesters and silos and cowboy hat salesmen.... It was surprisingly diverting.
| The cousins arrive! And grandparents! And we showed them Pittsburg. |
| Big Brutus is one of the biggest steam shovels ever. I've had dorm rooms smaller than the scoop. |
| There was a lot at the George Washington Carver museum: the kids may have had more fun in the museum, but the nature walk was pretty good. |
| We took the whole clan out to Triple Creek for a visit. The kids, naturally, had a blast on the trampoline. |
| Dad and I had fun hunting bugs in the garden |
Closer to home, though they moved a lot of the geese out of Lakeside Park, we still have ducks and ducklings. And Max now knows how to play checkers, thanks to his other grandmother!
We also took a short trip up to St. Louis, to see the other cousins and have some fun.
| The Magic House is a big exploratorium-type complex just a few blocks from Clint's place. Max and Jack spent quite a while in the Construction Zone, moving bricks and making walls. Below, a self-portrait in plastic. |
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We went to the new City Garden sculpture park, which doubled as a water adventure
On our last day we spent a couple of hours at the St. Louis Zoo, then the next morning, on our way home, we stopped at the Merimac Caverns to explore the caves and history
Then we came home and got ready for school.