City Museum

So, this is a little late, but I'm realizing as I work on this why it's so hard for me to keep updated on my posting... most evenings 'Lena and I are home by ourselves while Josh is at meetings. Elena is wonderful, she is FASCINATED by the computer. She loves to look at the screen, loves the noise the keys make when you pound on them, everything about it. So I start typing, and I have about 1 minute before she makes it1 `to me and helps... there was an example of her "helping!" qsv czx xdddddddddddssssssssaaaa
When I pick up the computer to move it away from her, she starts crying, and follows me. This whole "mobile" thing makes life very interesting!! So there's my (not very good) reason for not keeping up with the whole blogging thing! But I'm hoping to get several done tonight, so here goes!!

Last weekend (before Memorial Day) we went to the City Museum in St. Louis with the college kids from church. Josh teaches the college Sunday school class, and it's been a fun new ministry for us. After we went to the City Museum with the youth in January, the college kids have been dying to go. So we finally had a weekend off to go, and we had a great time! Trips with this group are way more relaxing then youth trips because we don't have to worry about anyone- everybody is a "grown-up," even if some of them (particularly my husband) are really just big kids! But the City Museum is the best place for big kids!! :) Since I had Elena in January and didn't get to do much of the fun jungle-gym stuff at the museum, we brought Mom along this time to watch Elena... it was perfect! I got to go and run around with my husband, but still got to feed Elena whenever I needed to. We had a blast, and I think the pictures speak for themselves!!

On the way there... everbody pretty much passed the time by making faces at Elena!

Some of the fun things to do at the City Museum...

the outside- a huge jungle gym with all kinds of metal tunnels bars to crawl through. You can even go up in the plane, it's pretty cool, and TOTALLY exhausting!

There are no words...

A giant ball pit for grown ups. Josh and I didn't make it into the ball pit, I'm still a little gun shy after the whole glasses thing!
One of the sky-high tunnels to crawl through. Pretty cool!

"IT ROCKS TOO MUCH FOR ONE HAND!"

And fun stuff inside! A slide in the "skateless" park, which is a huge section that looks like a skate park, only you run around it instead of riding a skateboard. It's pretty awesome.
Ruth, Charlie, and James in the mirror tunnel.
Charlie and Ruth on the "gerbil wheel." It was pretty funny, because you had to run the same speed as the other person, or you fell down. So, of course, Charlie tried to make Ruth fall down, because he's a brother and that's what they do!
The whole group: Ruth, Tara, Charlie, Josh, me, Elena, Corey, Andrea, Missy, and James. We were a little worn out, because this was the end of the City Museum!

We were so worn out that we decided to leave the City Museum early and head to the Galleria. We were planning on going to dinner there (The Cheesecake Factory-- YUM), but headed there early and went to see a movie- Prince Caspian. The movie was great, dinner at the Cheesecake Factory was AWESOME, and we headed home exhausted. They weren't as excited to talk to Elena on the way home!

Woohoo, one post down, and it only took an hour and a half! We'll see about the next one... it may be tomorrow! :)