St. Louis (part 2)

On Wednesday, July 3rd, we went to Forest Park. This is a really neat area of downtown St. Louis where there is this huge, green, lush park - plus it has free museums throughout. (Think of Central Park, only with museums, zoos, etc. It is actually about 500 acres larger than Central Park in NYC!) This place was COOL! The Science Center was free, the zoo was free, the Missouri History museum - free! We rode the trolley all around this area (the trolley was not free - but totally worth it!) visiting the different museums. Such a fun day.

Sam got to help rebuild a model of a small dinosaur.

 Sarah learned about nanobots and Josh (and Mommy!) learned about binary numbers. Very cool.

Then we rode the trolley to the St. Louis Zoo. This place was awesome!!

 Sam with the penguins!

Grandma and Josh at the Sea Lion Sound - a huge underground tunnel where the sea lions are swimming above you! Very cool!

At the zoo. 

(Poor Tim got sick this day too and my dad graciously offered to stay with him. They had a special day together too and played games and such once Tim felt a bit better.)

We also went to the Missouri History Museum - which I was really looking forward to, but it didn't have the Charles Lingbergh display I was hoping to see. The display about the St. Louis fair was neat, though.

It was a very fun day.