St. Louis (part four)

Thursday morning we woke up early (5:30) to go to swim practice again at CSP.  When I went in the house to get the girls up, Casey was already up!  She said that she was worried with her crazy schedule that she would miss us.  HOW SWEET!!!!  After swim practice, we got home and Brent was ready to flip some pancakes for two really hungry swimmers.  What a SWEETHEART!!!  And they were good...Clay and I had to sample you know! 
After some discussion at breakfast, we decided that we would meet up for lunch with 5 of the 6 (Elizabeth was working).  So we headed out for our last tour of St. Louis on this trip.  We decided we really wanted to see Grant's Farm.  Casey and Brent spoke very highly of it~ and it was a great way to finish our sightseeing!

 Standing in front of the stables at Grant's Farm

 Katherine's hand over a pony sized horseshoe

 Katherine's hand ~horse horseshoe

 Katherine's hand......and you guessed it~ a clydesdale horseshoe!

 Clydesdale in training!

 fence around Grant's Farm.....and yea, you might say big deal...

well, it is very COOL~ made out of gun barrels from Civil War guns!

 Ulysses and Julia Dent Grant's first home

 around the property we saw lots of these lining around the grass

areas.  Cannon balls!!!!  the lady guiding our tram said that some

people think they are bowling balls....well, there is a thumb hole~HA!

 one of the first wagons

 there were several sleighs.....if only it had been COLD enough

to even dream about using them!

 girls in the stable courtyard!

After finishing up at Grant's Farm, we went over to Julia Dent's childhood farm and where Ulysses and Julia lived for awhile.  It was so pretty!!!

My girls hanging out waiting for our tour! 

 Trying to stay cool!

It was time for lunch.  We sent text messages (strange after touring a house with no power) to Casey and Brent stating LUNCHTIME!  So we met at a wonderful pizza place in downtown Webster Grove, Dewey's Pizza.  After lunch, we headed back to the St John's house to pack up the car and shower the hot morning off of us!  It was sad to say bye after a wonderful week!!!  And this sweet little face!!! 

 Christopher! being funny leaving us with lots of laughes!!!

Clay turned the car towards home.  From the back seat...the girls said it should would be nice to end our trip with some concrete.....Did not take much to talk Clay into getting a little sweet treat for the road!  So he pointed the car for Historic Route 66 and get some CONCRETE!!!!  YUMMO!!!!! 

 Our window girl posing for a picture! And after tasting it we

all said maybe we should have gotten a bigger one! OH yea, we will

have that one on our list for next trip....maybe everynight!

One day we will do the whole Route 66....

that is on both of our bucket list! 

We know one place that we will stop at for sure!

So worth it!!!

After our wonderful sweet treat, it was time to put this trip in the memorybook. Got a ton packed into this trip BUT there was still a ton, just in Forest Park, that we did not get to do.  We'll be back!!!