St. Louis Scrapbook

Greetings Blog Fans!!! Sorry that I have not updated, thanks to the boss, you all know we're back. Anyhow, I made a scrapbook of our journey (the scrapbook was a gift from Vince on our anniversary). It turned out really cute and I wanted to share it with all of you (know that if you come over, I'm going to show you the book anyway). I hope you like it as much as I do. I think I did a decent job. I'm not a "scrapbooker", but I'm not too bad. Here it is...

The cover page. The picture inside the frame is the photo index thing that the pictures came with.

1st page: The St. Louis Arch, the temperature gauge in the car reading 101 degrees, the Maryville sign, and Lola our GPS (her name was inspired by the GPS in the movie RV which is also named Lola)

2nd page: Our campground. The picture on the upper left is Vince inside the tent holding all the poles waiting for me to place them. The picture with Vince giving a thumbs up was taken by Sofia.

3rd page: The left is our adventure at the Abuelos' neighborhood pool and the right has pictures of Angela our friend from St. Louis and the lower right is Sofia and Abuelo enjoying an ice cream sandwich.... yum!

4th page: Sofia on a slide at a mall that we went to and on the right is my FAVORITE page- a combination of all the characters that we found at Six Flags. Notice on the left side next to the margin a picture of Sofia and Vince with Batman and Robin.

5th page- The many activities that we did at Six Flags. Sofia got her picture drawn my Micheal (on the right page) with air brush it is displayed with Vince and I's caricature drawing in our bedroom. You will also see Vince with a giant hammer on the left page, he won Sofia that Batman cape.

6th page- Our visit to City Museum- in summary it's a gigantic juggle gym for adults. You may be able to see the outside of it on the lower left hand side of the page.

7th page- Our activities at the museum. They had blocks for the kids to play with and a giant area for crafts/painting. Vince painted the purple tulip on the left page. There was also a ball pit and the right page shows pictures of that.

8th page- The Wax Museum which is up for sale if anyone is interested ($1.7 million- Charlie the owner said if you bring cash he will throw in all the wax figurines). Pictured on the left page: Pope John Paul II, Moctezuma, Dali, Abe Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. and Vince staring at Genghis Khan. On the right page: Charlie's wax figure, Snow White, Babe Ruth, Dopey, and Micheal Jackson.

9th page- On the left is the many faces of Sofia at Bobby's (the greatest frozen custard place) located in Maryville. It was delicious!! On the right some pictures of Busch Stadium (Vince, Grandpa Paul, Abuelo, and Tio Omar went).

10th page-Our favorite stuff, I'll explain. Cool spray painted trash can at the city museum... so cool, maybe I'll do that for ours. Who can resist fun signs- the Lost Parents is just funny if taken out of context and the Scoop the Poop needs no explanation. My thumbs up to Funnel Cake (Sofia calls it funny cake) and a random guy at this place called Morgan St. Brewery where we ate having a beer sampler platter: 5 beers of the day for $5.50). Pictured on the right is Sofia sleeping after a long day at Six Flags (not only did we do the attractions at the park, but we also swam at Hurricane Harbor).

Last page- Home... our favorite getaway. A picture of the Peoria County sign on the bridge. I couldn't find a Welcome to Peoria sign on our way in. Bummer.

Hope you enjoyed it!!