Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Keyes Family Visit - Gateway Arch & the Botanical Gardens

visiting the Gateway Arch
July 30th - Happy Anniversary to Z&K!! :-)
learning all about how the arch was built while waiting to go up
(Charlie & Zeke waited with Jonas & Nico while we went up)
waiting by our door to go in the egg-shaped car to the top 
in the egg!

up at the top enjoying the views




we love St Louis!

headed back down


rolling down the hill
we had such a fun time with the Keyes!


we had lunch at Rooster - yummy!
a visit to the Botanical Gardens


in the Climatron
Matias' creation in the kids' area

pretty Hadley!
Chas - 2008 - Rat
Lucas - 2004 - Monkey
Leila - 2006 - Dog
Hadley - 2010 - Tiger
Matias - 2007 - Pig

at the Ropes Course in the Children's Garden

playing with the boats

playing in the Splash Pad


at the market


more Chinese Lantern displays



custard from famous Ted Drewes!


that's a BIG bite Chas!!

good till the last drop!

can't leave St Louis without custard!!!

Thanks for coming to visit Keyes family!!

2 comments:

Leigh said...

Looks like a positively wonderful day. Such great things to do and see.

Leigh said...

After seeing all the pictures, you've convinced me we need to visit St. Louis, it looks like such a fun place.
Congrats to Zeke on his marathon and to Lucas on getting baptized. It is hard to believe his 8! Time truly marches on.