Newman Family Vacation 2015 {Part Two}

On Monday I shared about part one of our 2015 family vacation. Today I wanted to finish off the details of the rest of our trip and dump a few lot more photos on you.

Day 3 started out at the St. Louis Science Center. Another free attraction that St. Louis has to offer. We arrived there before we opened and managed to snag one of the free parking places too!

The building has a planetarium on one side of the highway and the science center on the other with this walkway over the highway connecting them.

All that time building this and seconds before I snapped a photo a little kid pushed it over. 

So we built it again. 

This is their "space walk".

This photo shows their personalities to a T. Marissa unsure, Emily silly. 

Day # 3 of tons of walking. We were all feeling pretty done by this point but still smiling. 

After a quick stop by the hotel we went to have dinner with and visit Russ' Grandparents. We were also able to see his Uncle and Aunt too. It is always so nice seeing them. 

Day four was our last day and I knew I wanted to take the girls to get a close up look at the arch. We have drove past it countless times but it is pretty hard to beat getting an up close look. 

Plus you "have" to touch it.

The mighty Mississippi "Pond" as Emily called it. Tons of rain and flooding has the river pretty high right now. With all the droughts out west us Mid-westerners are feeling pretty guilty over the insane amount of rain we have had. 

And a trip down town wouldn't be complete without a look at the ball park.

Go Cards!!!

Marissa tried taking a photo of us... not to bad. 

Our last St. Louis stop was a trip to Grants Farm also known as the Budweiser farm.

We met Lee a 19 year old Budweiser Clydesdale. He was super sweet.

Checked out the Clydesdale farm

Took a train ride through Deer Park.

Fed some camels.

Rode another carousel.

Plus we made an elephant friend.

It was by far the hottest day of our trip so I decided to be a yes mom. The girls ran through the sprinklers until they were almost soaked. 

A little more walking around and we were headed to the car to make the 4.5 hour drive back home. 

We haven't made a trip like this with the girls in YEARS. It was such a blessing and so much fun. I am so, so glad we decided to get out of town together and hope we can make many more trips like this together in the future. 

Newman Family Vacation 2015 {Part One}

Last week we finally took that little trip I have been dropping hints about. I wanted to give all the details and post photos along the way but we are "those" people. You know, the ones who don't announce their vacation where abouts until they arrive back home. I could honestly go either way on the issue but the husband is pretty set on keeping things on the down low so I play along.

We left the morning of Marissa's 7th birthday and spent 4 days and 3 night in St. Louis seeing the sites, making memories and having a blast. I am quickly going to run you through our first couple of days and show you loads of photos along the way.

Our first stop upon arriving was White Castle for some lunch. We have a list of food places that we must eat at while in St. Louis and White Castle is one of them. After lunch we headed to The Magic House. 


We imagined.

Splashed around.


Giggled.  (This is Emily's presidential face)

Discovered that even electricity couldn't get rid of the curls.

Emily mastered the photo bomb in an all in kind of way. 

This sand castle... pretty amazing.

The Magic House was great as always. The girls are pretty much the perfect age to play and enjoy that place for hours. 
We worked with The Magic House and their St. Lou is jumping campaign and they provided us with 8 free passes. Since we only used 4 we have 4 passes to giveaway! I do realize this is a pretty regionally specific giveaway. If you have plans to visit St. Louis before the end of the year and would like the passes shoot me an email at ourprettylittlegirls.com. Here in a week or so I will draw a winner among those who contact me. 
After The Magic House we hit up Dewey's Pizza. Maybe the best pizza St Louis has too offer. 

Day two was spent at the St Louis Zoo.

After snapping this photo I saw the sign that said do not climb #fail.

Our zoo day was kind of cool and rainy but I think that made for the perfect day. The animals were out, active and it wasn't too hot either. 

Fun artistic shot.

Our favorite part of the zoo was easily the seals. We spent a lot of time here.

What is a zoo trip without a carousel ride?

I snapped this shot in the Butterfly House. I could have spent hours in there taking photos but a certain 7 year old was a bit freaked out by the hundreds of butterflies swarming everywhere.

ROAR!

When your sister sits in the seat that you wanted to sit in. Oh the girl drama.

A bit blurry but look, I'm there too!

St. Louis has the most amazing penguin house. It is FREEZING cold in there but being feet away from these amazing penguins was awesome.

We loved the seals so much we went back to say goodbye and made a friend while we were there too. 

After the zoo we had to find a Trader Joe's so I could stock up on some Cookie Butter and other Trader Joe's essentials. Joplin REALLY needs a Trader Joe's.

Then we had dinner at Fitz's bottling company. They bottle Fitz's soda's here and we were able to take a peek at how they do that while enjoying some great food and root beer. 

Our first two days were fantastic. 
Just being together out of town was so much fun.  I'll fill you in on the rest of our trip later this week!