Saint Louie Louie

In high school band, I loved playing the song 'Louie Louie'.  My love for visiting Saint Louis has grown just as fond.  With the city only 3 hours from Mount Pleasant, Bailey and I took another weekend trip this summer to enjoy some of the sights.  One of these years we might get up to The Arch, but with Bailey claiming she is petrified of heights, I thought it safer to stay on ground again this year.  Other than the occassional ride at Six Flags that took us high in the sky (the picture to the right is just before taking off on the ferris wheel), we enjoyed riding the lazy river at Hurricane Harbor, seeing almost all the animals at the zoo and spending a couple hours at The Science Center.  It was a fun little getaway just before the start of the school year.

These little red pandas look like stuffed animals.  We watched this little guy and his buddy play for 30 minutes.

If you ever get to the Saint Louis Zoo, you have to see the sea lion show.  It is great entertainment.  Robby and RJ were actually born at the zoo and are very funny and talented.

We did make a stop at the Build a Bear store at the zoo and Bailey chose a puffin just like those at the penguin and puffin exhibit.  This exhibit was a nice break from the heat since it was 40 degrees inside.

Our first stop at the zoo was to pet the stingless stingrays.  The first hour in this area was free so yet another lesson that getting to places early can pay off.  Stingrays are very smooth and little slimey.

Our final stop of the day, and what has been one of our favorite exhibits the last 2 times we've gone to the zoo, are the hippos.  This huge hippo tank has about 4 hippos that swim by you and they will also peek their eyes above the water which is fun to watch.

This is Bailey's impersonation of the mechanical dinosaur in the background at The Science Center.

This picture says it all in how much fun we had once again at Saint Louis.