St. Louis Vacation Day 4 ~ Magic House and Fitz's

To keep us from getting too grumpy from cramming too much into one day, today we decided to forego our visit to Grant's Farm, sleep in a bit, have a slow morning, and just go to Magic House. Magic House is another really fun St. Louis museum, geared more toward educating the little ones and imaginative play. I tried to warn Dawson and Antonio that they might be bored, and to be respectful of the little kids at the museum. But, true to their personalities, I think they had more fun than the little kids. Well, maybe not more, but they certainly weren't bored!

Poor Rick only lasted about 30 minutes or so before he had to give up and go spend the rest of the time in the car. His back was really hurting him today.

We had a really fun day, starting with The Magic Treehouse exhibit. We joined Annie and Jack on three of their adventures ... to the Civil War, to pioneer days, and the Plymouth plantation.

Eli and I dressed up as Jack and Annie

Happy First Thanksgiving!

Land Ho!

Then Dawson and I divided our time between Eli and Brynne. That was nice because I could concentrate on just one of them and what they wanted to do, and the other went with Dawson and Antonio.

Court is in session.

Jack climbing the Beanstalk

Brynne's favorite places were the vet clinic and infant nursery. Is that a prediction of her future?

Eli's was the construction zone and Oval Office. Is that a prediction of his???

We revisited the Lewis and Clark exhibit that premiered 8 years ago when we were there the first time.

Everybody had a really great time and really weren't ready to leave.

We came back to the hotel for a bit, and then got ready for dinner. This was to be our only night to eat out. Fitz's is a really great burger joint combined with it's root beer bottling company. You can watch them bottle the root beer right there while you eat.

Rick couldn't make it, and Eli decided he was needing some hotel time, so we left them behind. Dawson, Antonio, Brynne and I sat outside on the patio and listened to some great live music. We all had burgers and sodas and then enjoyed some famous root beer floats.

We brought Rick and Eli to go food and got back to the hotel early. We are currently just laying around ... Dawson and Antonio are playing the Xbox in their room. Eli and Brynne are playing Stack the States on the iPad, I am blogging, and Rick is laying in our room watching t.v. No, we can't detach ourselves from our electronics for long, I'm afraid.

We are checking out in the morning, after a final swim, and heading home. It's been a really fun vacation, but we are all ready to get home, I think ... especially Rick. I am praying his back starts to get better soon. I know that he has been miserable, but he has hung in there with a semi-smile on his face because he knows how important this vacation has been to the kids. They have had an excellent time ... exactly what they were hoping for. We definitely could have stayed for at least another two or three days. We didn't do all there is to offer, like Grant's Farm and the Science Center. Maybe another time.