Weekend

On Friday, Kenny didn't have work so we decided to go to the St. Louis Zoo because I was lacking in letter "A" activities, and we knew Ty would love the Animals. So the kids got up pretty early which was great because the zoo opened at 8 and we got there around 8:30. The admission to the zoo itself is free (unless you count the $11 of parking), but you have to pay for a lot of things once you get in there. When you go between 8 and 9, the Children's zoo is free so that's what we did first. There was a fun playground, lots of animals to pet and fun stuff to look at. Ty loved it!

The view of downtown St. Louis as we drove across the Mississippi River.

kenny and I thought this was the coolest part of the whole zoo. There were HUGE hippos in this big tank and they were like fighting and letting fish eat out of their mouths right in front of the glass. It was amazing! Ty was kind of scared of them hah, he kept saying they were going to bite him. By the way, I don't normally squat like this when I'm standing, i was just in the process of sitting down ha. It's just a good one of the hippo.

For some reason it was like a weird animal day for us. We've been to a few different zoos, but there were just random things. Like how the chimpanzees would lay right in front of the glass, like inches from us. And the one that had his butt pressed up against the glass. Boy did the kids at the zoo love that one. Also, the huge african lion was way up in this tall tree and you could only see his feet. He wouldn't come down. I have never seen a lion at the zoo hiding in the trees ha.

On the way home we stopped at the Hamel Farmer's market that's only a few minutes from our house. YUM! I'm going to be going there all the time. It's closer than any grocery store, and way better, and sometimes cheaper.

We got a lot of yard work done that afternoon. I weeded a lot and Kenny mowed the lawn and got on the roof to clean out our rain gutters.

Saturday was the annual Holiday Shores YARD SALE! It is huge, and I've never seen anything like it. Everyone in Holiday Shores participates and it's awesome. Everybody does a yard sale, and it starts early in the morning and goes into the afternoon. People just walk/drive/bike around the neighborhood and get as much stuff as they want. It rocks. We walked around in the morning with our next door neighbors who are so nice. We had to come back to drop off the stuff adn feed Brynlee. But then we went back out in our car. We got some pretty cool stuff. board games, clothes and shoes for Ty and Bryn, a little kitchen set, some nice and cute dishes (real ones, not for the play kitchen set ha) and some other fun stuff. We loved it. We also went to this awesome flea market and wanted to just walk around for hours and look at all the cool stuff. Kids don't make that very possible, so we'll just have to go back some other time. Anyway. We've had a lot of fun this weekend.