Road Trip!

The day after school got out, we packed up and hit the road! We had to cancel our big trip out west last summer when Ross got deployed, so this year, we were making up for it! The plan was to road trip out to Colorado (to see grandparents and pick up a bunch of stuff for Ross) and fly out to California to spend time at Disneyland and wonderful San Diego.

First, the road trip...

We debated how many days to drive and decided on a little more leisurely trip, stopping to see the St Louis Arch along the way.



In preparation, I bought lots of little, fun, travel books and games. I didn't reveal the goodies until that morning!



Max was easily occupied for hours with these new books! One of them was the license plate game in sticker book format! We got a ton filled in in the first couple hours of our trip... (We never did get Delaware, Hawaii, (which we saw the day we came home!) and Washington, D.C. (that one doesn't count though, right?)).



Not that we were visiting, but it was good to be leaving for a while. We all needed it!



A side note, I was born in Indiana, so I have to give a little nod...

I like signs and pictures of signs... this is driving into Indianapolis...


and heading towards St Louis! My sister lived near here for a while, so we are not strangers to the city, but the kids don't remember it, and they wanted to see the arch!


we went to dinner down in Laclede's Landing by the arch. I used "yelp" a ton on this trip and we definitely dined better because of it. There weren't a ton of highly reviewed restaurants in the area, but we found a brewery- Morgan's - that didn't disappoint us.




The food was good.


The location was fun!



the company... hilarious, as always.

But, the beer, did I mention it was a brewery?


The beer was the best ever! I LOVED IT! I never say that! It was their honey wheat...



It was smooth, like buttah, without any "ick"... I think my next job should be beer label writer, what do you think?



Ross liked it too! I'm not joking, if I drove through there again, I would stop in!



After our beer dinner, we walked over to the arch. We had an appointment (it is the way to go)!