We took an anniversary trip to St. Louis. Since I am nursing Macy, we decided to bring her along. We got to St Louis early, and first went to the art museum. Macy was mostly okay there. We went back to the van, and I fed and changed Macy. We went over to the St Louis zoo just to eat lunch, (they are both in the forest park area)as we were not too impressed with the art museums lunch selection. Macy was getting upset with me by then. Since Andy is a fast eater, he took Macy to see the monkeys while I finished my lunch. (We had told RaeAnn that we weren't going to the zoo, which was the orginal plan, so we didn't stay to look at the rest of the animals).
We walked over to the huge fountain area next. I used my cover up and fed Macy a bit here as well. (She is a snacker most of the time). We walked over to the history museum after this. The history museum turned out to be a slightly longer walk than we had thought. I ended up carrying Macy for at least part of the way. She was getting sleepy, but fighting it. She feel asleep in my arms, but only for a little bit. I put her back in the stroller, only to have to pick her back up soon after. I really enjoyed the 1904 World's Fair part of the museum. I hope to learn more about it now. I had to stop and feed Macy here as well. As I said, she is a snacker.
By now it was 5, and we decided to go to St. Mills Mall. This mall is huge with an indoor ice rink, go cart track, carrosuel, mini golf, kid play area, and now a mini train that goes throughout the mall. We just walked around, browsing there. We saw a rainbow on the way out.
We ate at Outback Steakhouse at about 7:30. Macy was getting pretty tired by now. She had not slept much all day. She usually doesn't sleep much during the day, so by 7 or 8, she is ready for bedtime. She reminds me of Reagan at this age. Macy was happy for part of the dinner. Then, she got really upset, so before I was done eating, I took her out to the van to feed her and get her ready for bed. Andy brought the rest of my dinner out for me.
So we were all getting tired and ready to rest by this time. Andy went to the Ramada Inn that he thought he had reservations at. Well, it turned out that the reservation was at a different Ramada just a few miles away. We could see this other Ramada from the interestate, but when we got off the interestate, we had trouble finding the road we needed. Andy stopped to ask for directions. We got to the Ramada, and we were supposed to have a king sized bed. Well, the interenet reservations were overbooked for king sized beds, so we would have to take two double beds. We weren't mad about it, just disappointed. Macy was sound asleep at this time. When we got to our room door, Andy used the card key, and pushed the handle UP, it did not open. He tried again. It was not budging. He then read what he should have read first. The handle must be pushed DOWN to open. We had never had a motel door do that before. Either way you push the handle usually had worked. (I was ready to have Andy go tell them that we got a defective key or something).
We got in the room to find that the closet door could not close (it was stuck), it had a crack in the glass as well, so Andy told me to leave it alone. I was wanting it to close though, I just would have felt better if it was closed go figure. We ended up sleeping separately in the double beds to have more room (we have a queen at home, and a king at Andy's mom's, so we are used to space). So I started thinking that this was like an I Love Lucy episode.
So the next day....we were offered a cold breakfast of fig newtons, honey buns, plain bagels, and Eggo waffles. They did have a toaster and microwave. We did enjoy the waffles, and I ate a couple fig newtons, but we did stop at McDonald's to have a sausage biscuit. (The other Ramada had had a wonderful free hot breakfast with real plates even that is why we wanted to stay there again).
We headed over to Meramac Caverns. We paid and were just starting the tour, when Macy decided to start crying. It is somewhat dark in there, and I think that was her problem. I try to take her to a darkened room to get her to nap during the day. The tour guide asked if we would be alright. I said that we would as long as she feel asleep. She did not fall asleep, but calmed down for at least part of the tour. I enjoyed the cave, but did not find it to be chilly as others had told me. I was sweating carrying Macy, and took off my jacket before the tour was finished. (they do not allow strollers on the tour).
Andy and I were laughing and saying that nothing was going right for the trip, but that it was a good sign we could laugh about it. Andy says he isn't sure that he wants to take a baby on an anniversary trip again. We did have fun though- spending time together.
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