This fall we made a trip back to St. Louis for our fifth marathon in the Rock and Roll series. We chose this race because we will take every chance that we can get to go back to one of our "hometowns". Although it's not really either of our hometowns we feel a special love for the city as we enjoyed so much about the city during Jill's four years of optometry school there. So we loaded up the car, picked up "Grannanny", and off we went.
We started off at the race expo. After four other races we finally wised up a bit and decided to take K in this hiking pack instead of trying to manuver a stroller through 30,000 people.
We visited Anheuser-Busch for the tour and so K could see the clydesdales. He liked seeing the horses and his second favorite thing was being able to ride the escalators towards the end of the tour.
K loved our lunch stop as it had live music. He danced the whole time and didn't take the time to eat.
The whole highlight of the trip for him was supposed to be the zoo. We had built this up so much and we had spent several weeks preparing him and teaching him about all of the animals. But...we carted him around so much that when we finally arrived at the zoo he couldn't even keep his eyes open.
Maybe we are bad parents but we let him catch a five minute power nap and then we woke him up.
He didn't seem to mind as he loved walking around and seeing all of the animals. It was a toss up between the elephant and the penguin as to which animal was his favorite. We would pick the penguins just because we liked to hear him say, "waddle, waddle, waddle."
Sunday was the race and we couldn't have asked for better weather. We were able to run the first eight miles together and so that added to the enjoyment level a bit. Overall, it was a good run and a great way to cap off the weekend.
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