Road Trip!

This summer, on our way back to the Midwest, we planned two stops in Missouri. First, we stopped for dinner in a town called Sikeston where they have a famous restaurant. I saw a show on the Travel Channel featuring places in the United States and this looked like a winner. The name of the restaurant is Lambert's Cafe. Their claim to fame is ridiculous sized portions and throwing hot yeast rolls at you from across the restaurant! We had so much fun at this place and would definitely return! Both girls caught rolls, larger than softballs, from across the restaurant. So much fun!!

Our next stop was St. Louis, Missouri. A few days before leaving, we looked on-line for activities to do in the area. We came up with some ideas from taking a riverboat cruise and visiting the arch to going to an amusement park. While the girls were pretty excited about going to the amusement park, after looking at the weather (predicted to be 105 degrees...ugh, no thank you), we decided to visit the amusement park on another trip when it wasn't so hot. So, we bought tickets to go up in the arch and to take a riverboat cruise. The view from the arch was pretty amazing and we all liked that! Because of the temperatures, we took the earliest riverboat cruise in the day. It was still about 90 degrees at 10:30 that morning when the Tom Sawyer cruised up and down the Mississippi River.  It was hot and humid and I'm not sure the girls had a great time, but now we can say we have cruised on the Mississippi River!

Isn't this a great picture?!? We are cruising down the Mississippi and look so happy... this is what it was really like:

I'm hot....how much longer is this?!? (forget the educational stuff, they just wanted to get into the car in the air conditioning!)