McWeekend- City Museum

Our trip to St. Louis over MLK weekend started out with a bang.  When we were about an hour outside of KC, Olive threw up.  She has spit up before when she has a runny nose and then tries to eat something (which she was) and it doesn't mean she's really sick.  After pulling off the highway for clean-up and discussion on whether or not we'd noticed "sick poops" (Isn't being a parent awesome?), we called the McGuires to tell them what was up.  The bravely said "Come on anyway.  Even if she is sick, we've all had the flu."  So we continued.  And Olive seemed fine- ate, drank, played just like normal.  Whew.

The kids in age order: Olive (1), Gwyneth (1), Hannah (3), Colin (4), Kevin (6) watching cartoons Saturday morning.
 

 

Saturday we went to the coolest place on the planet: City Museum.  It is an indoor/outdoor playground in an old factory.  Everything is made from objects found around the city.  There are tons of climbing structures, slides, caves, and small places to hide. I think it is either a love it or hate it place.  If you are afraid of the dark, heights, or claustrophobic....it probably isn't the place for you.  We all loved it.

 

Kevin and Hannah climbing with Taco behind them.

Hannah's favorite things were the train (Olive eventually got brave enough to go on it too) and a skate park that she ran around on.
 

Olive wasn't able to explore as much because she was so little that her feet would fall through the bars, but she still had fun.  Her favorite things were the skate park and watching the turtles swim in the aquarium.

Kevin in front of the giant whale.

Me and Big Boy.
 

 The guys in the hamster wheel.

Some of the coolest stuff was outside.  Here is Hannah climbing super high.

 

That's her in the pink with Steve behind her.
 

Steve and Hannah are in the middle of the tube, and Taco and Gwyn are starting up.  Olive and I stayed on the ground and took pictures. :)
 

This is me going down a slide inside with Hannah and Taco waiting at the bottom.  Hannah and I also went down a 10 story slide!!  She was super brave.
 

Back at the house to make pizzas for dinner.

 

 

And then even more fun: Olympics!!  I think we might abandon the tradition of MLK Turkey Fry and do Olympics instead.  The long jump was not my favorite event, but it made for some good pictures.

 

 

 The funniest event was blindfolded cross dressing.  Jane told us they got these clothes in a thrift shop, but I'm pretty sure she wore that dress to our wedding.  Steve is breaking out some gangnum style before the event starts.

Sunday was a relaxing day playing around the house.  Then it was time to go out to dinner....and Olive threw up for real.  Steve was staying in St. Louis for work so I made the decision to drive home with the girls Sunday night.  The whole time I was praying Olive could make it home without getting sick.  We made it at 11:00 at night and both girls slept most the way.  Olive saved her really sick day until Monday.  She was a lump on top of me all day.  Then Steve was sick in St. Louis on Tuesday.  Hannah and I were sick on Wednesday, just in time for Steve to get back that night.  It hit all the McGuires too.  It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.  It took until Sunday for me to eat normally again.  Still, City Museum and the Olympics were awesome and totally worth it.  Probably.