Tomorrow is officially our one year anniversary, but we decided that we would go to St. Louis this weekend to celebrate. We also combined it as a pre-baby vacation! We stayed at a bed and breakfast called the Cheshire Inn. It was a neat place, but I don't know that we would stay there again. It was okay though because we spent most of our time outside the hotel. We got to St. Louis Friday evening and just hung out and ordered in pizza from Imos-- so yummy! Saturday morning we got up and spent a few hours at the St. Louis Zoo. We were definitely glad we went first thing in the morning because it got hot very quickly, plus there were a TON of people there! I, unfortunately, didn't plan very well with the attire I chose. Apparently the flip flops I decided to wear didn't like me and gave me some really annoying blisters, causing us to have to go back to the hotel so I could change prior to going shopping! Here are just a few pictures of the animals. I love zoos!!
Like I said, after the zoo, we decided to do some serious damage to our bank account and go shopping. We picked up a few things for Mason and A LOT of clothes for Baby H. He/she will be set for clothes for a bit (I think..). Mason also surprised me by taking me to Kay's and buying me a ring for our anniversary! I then felt terrible because I only bought him an $8.00 DVD (Couple's Retreat-- the movie we saw on our first date) per our agreement that our trip would count as our gift to one another. He justified it by saying that I bought him a bike and gun safe. I agreed that it was okay at that point! : )
We later went back to the hotel to get ready for dinner. We looked up this place called Charlie Gittos before we even went to St. Louis, which is a really nice Italian restaurant on the hill. The food was excellent, and our server even brought us a complimentary dessert for our anniversary! So yummy! This is us after our fabulous dinner!
Today we went shopping at a couple more places (and did some more damage to our bank account) prior to coming home to pick up Gussy. Mason even let me drive his new truck to go pick him up! I think I mentioned in a previous blog that he was fixing up a truck to replace the Nissan. His buddy Bill bought a 1996 GMC Sierra and offered to sell it to Mason for what he bought it for, mostly because it needed a new motor put in. So with a great deal of help from Bill (Mason's best friend who happens to be a mechanic), they found a motor and put the truck back together again. Mason was kind of bummed to say goodbye to the Nissan, but he's very excited to have a "big" truck again!
That was our weekend in a nutshell and we had a great time! We consider ourselves very lucky that we were able to spend that time together prior to Baby Heavin's arrival in T-minus 5ish weeks (hopefully). We plan on spending the rest of the evening relaxing and not doing much of anything. As you can see from the picture below Gus is very happy to have us back home as well!!
