Even though we’ve been having horribly consistent 102°ᶠ days here we still get some really awesome storms. It is really neat to see large super cells in the distance but the coolest is when there are multiple layers of clouds all moving at different speeds in different directions like the picture below. Here are a...
Monthly Archives: June 2009
37 Years of Construction
This afternoon we headed over to Topeka, which is the capitol of Kansas. It’s only about 30 minutes from Lawrence and we had been there before, but hadn’t ever gone to the capitol building. This plaque has a really good summary of the history of Kansas: Here’s the capitol building, it has some really great...
Four Wheelin’ Frenzy
This past weekend, Chris and I headed out to Bruce and Sharon’s to have some fun in the country. Bruce had gotten all his outdoor toys running since winter, so he invited us out. Here we are with his Honda Trail 70 mini bike. He actually still has some work to do on this one,...
Dad’s Day
For Father’s Day we sent our dad’s some funny cards. When you open up the one on the left Darth Vader’s voice says “I am your Father”. The one on the right is the one we gave to Chris’ dad. When you opened it up it played the Superman theme song and said something like...
Sun – 6/14/09
On Sunday we checked out of our hotel room. It was a nice place to stay. This plaque says that our hotel building was part of the International Fur Trade. Behind our hotel one block was the baseball stadium where the Cardinals play. Also in downtown St. Louis is the Dome where the St. Louis...
Sat – 6/13/09 (part 2)
After the Arch and Illinois we headed over to Forest Park. This park is one of the biggest urban parks in the USA. The St. Louis Zoo is in the park and that is where we wanted to go. The Zoo was definitely the place to be and we got the best parking spot in...
Sat – 6/13/09 (part 1)
We woke up Saturday morning and were ready to hit the town! Our first adventure was walking across the street to check out the arch. But first we took some pictures from a distance. Here’s Chris holding up the arch… And me just standing there. We got to see some great views of the Arch...
Friday – 06/12/09
For our anniversary Chris planned a surprise trip for us to St. Louis! He did a great job doing all the planning. He told me about a week before that he was planning a surprise trip for our anniversary weekend, but didn’t tell me until we were on the road Friday morning where we were...