Who'd of thunk it?

St. Louis in spring.... Sounds great. That's what we thought when we decided to take the kids to St. Louis for spring break. Just a 3 day trip for some city museum fun, American girl doll store, and a trip to the arch. Before we head out we check the weather and see that it's going to be cold. But worse than that it's going to snow. No problem for Mark of course... In fact he's like heck yeah I get to see some snow. But as we always do we think the weather guys are crazy and think how bad could it get really? So we head out. But somewhere in the back of my hubby's northern lizard brain he decides it's probably a good idea to just throw the snow stuff in the back of the pilot. Why not? It turned out to be a good  idea. We hit the city museum the afternoon we arrived and spent 5 hours climbing, sliding, and crawling through tunnels and caves. I can honestly say I'm glad we are still young and healthy because all the kids kept saying was "What's taking so long?" But trying to crawl and squeeze thru was no easy feat. Good thing we have all our caving experience to help us! Anyway, go to sleep that night and wake up to a winter storm. It dumps a foot of snow on St. Louis. AMAZING! It was beautiful. Well as beautiful as it can be for snow... Yuck! I hate snow and cold weather. But we braved it and snow suited up. We ended up driving to the snow hill where everyone goes when it snows. We had fun despite the snow pelting us in the face and freezing our butts off. St. Louis knows how to handle this for sure. Roads were plowed and safe for travel.  We hit the cheesecake factory, and cant come that close to sikeston and not go to Lambert's. Oh those rolls! Could make a meal on those alone. We also went up in the St. Louis arch. That was very interesting. On our way out of town we stopped and toured the Budweiser brewery. Saw the Clydesdales and tasted free beer. It was a great trip with lots of good memories. It will forever be known as the spring break with a foot of snow!  Here are some pics I took of our fun trip in SL!