Last Thursday, our family left on a trip to Missouri. We spent most of our time in Kansas City but the main reason we were going was for a wedding near St. Louis.
We headed straight to the zoo when we arrived in KC. We like the zoo there because everything is so spread out and the enclosures are more "wild-like". We decided to take the tram to "Africa".
We did see a few different animals from the Omaha zoo. This is a red river hog which we have in Omaha but we have never seen the babies close-up. They look like striped gophers to us. They were cute in an "ugly" sort of way. They were fun to watch as they tried to get their mama to roll over!
After the zoo, we checked into our hotel and then met Don's brother and wife for supper. It was a fun, long day! On Friday, we spent much of the day at the hotel. After our free breakfast, some of us ventured to the exercise room while most of us swam . . . and swam . . . and swam! Then Don and I decided to surprise the kids with a movie - The Avengers in 3-D. They were soooo excited (Don most of all!).
On Saturday, we headed to St. Louis (after our free breakfast, of course!). We are studying American history this year and are in the mid-1800's. We discovered that Missouri was ranked third for number of battles during the Civil War. We stopped in Lexington, MO to tour one battlefield and then headed to the capitol of Missouri, Jefferson City. The capitol building was quite impressive.
Here are our kids with "Thomas Jefferson" in front of the capitol. We specifically stopped at the capitol because they had a temporary Civil War exhibit. It was very good and informative (lots of guns!) Living in the "North", we found it very interesting to hear about the war from the "South" point-of-view.
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