St. Louis- Brunch and other fun stuff

Lauren’s mom is the president of an awesome children’s museum in St. Louis called the Magic House. They had a beautiful brunch there the morning after the wedding and we got the museum all to ourselves to  play in after we ate. This museum had a room for everything imaginable, they had a presidential suite where kids could sit at the desk in the oval office or do a speech on TV, there was a bank, a market, a house, an electromagnetic room, a bubble room, and even a music and sound room. We had a blast!

Brunch and outside of the Magic House. It is much bigger than it looks in the picture.

 

A house and the grocery store.

Jason playing on the pulleys

Me, standing in a bubble and in electricity room with my hair standing up.

Music exhibits.

The beanstalk ropes course, you can take the stairs of the beanstalk to other exhibits.

Alice in Wonderland exhibit.

WALT FOR PRESIDENT?????

 

After the brunch we did some additional sightseeing. We went to the St. Louis Oktoberfest, which is one of the biggest in the nation, and also the Anheuser –Busch plant.

We had extra time since our flight was delayed 8 hours. We didn’t get home until 3 in the morning.

Oktoberfest

This is the plant where they house all of the horses and Dalmatians that are in the Budweiser commercials, so we got a tour of the stables.

St. Louis- The Wedding

Lauren and Johnny’s wedding was absolutely beautiful. Lauren is a little more non-traditional but really put together some of the most beautiful and interesting wedding decorations that I have ever seen. Lauren looked beautiful and the wedding was absolutely amazing.They had some of the most unique and fun ideas. They had a limo bus for all of their guests so no one had to drive and instead of a guest book, they had a photo booth and guests took one picture with them and put one in an album with their wedding wishes on the back so they had a photo of everyone at their wedding. One of her bridesmaids was Laura Planck who is currently on Project Runway.

They got married at a beautiful building in Forest Park called the Jewel Box, which is an all glass building with beautiful gardens and sculptures.

The beautiful bride. Her dress was absolutely gorgeous.

The reception was at the Top of the Met, which is the tallest building in St. Louis, overlooking the entire city.

 

The skyline.

St. Louis- Sightseeing at the Arch

On Saturday before the wedding we went downtown to see the arch. We were going to go up in the arch but we didn’t have a lot of time and also, I’m not really sure how I feel about traveling  50 stories in a tic tac with no windows. So we opted to go on a boat in the Mississippi River instead.

Views from the boat.

The old courthouse by the arch.

Underground museum of Westward Expansion.

St. Louis- Rehearsal Dinner

The rehearsal dinner was at the top of the Chase Park Plaza Resort in St. Louis. The theme was “Meet me in St. Louis”. There were 130 people at the rehearsal dinner which overlooked the upper west end of the city.

Dining Room and the beautiful view.

Pete and Debbie’s whole family with the bride and groom to be.

With Shelley at dinner.                                In front of the Chase.

St. Louis- (Zoo, Art Museum, Golfing)

 

Last weekend we went to Lauren and Johnny Wright’s wedding in St. Louis. Johnny and his family are very close family friends. They had quite the elaborate and beautiful wedding weekend. The wedding weekend started Thursday with a happy hour at the bar that they met at and them Friday was a round of golf for the guys. While the guys were golfing at a beautiful course in Forest Park, my mom and I decided to do a little sightseeing. Since this was our first time in St. Louis, we decided that we needed to check out as much as possible while we were there. All of our sightseeing plus all of the wedding activities made for a very full and very busy awesome weekend.

St. Louis has one of the top 5 Zoos in the country and they have the best penguin exhibit in the world. I have never seen a real penguin, so of course I needed to check that out. It was just like the movie Happy Feet!

While we were in town, we were lucky enough to see the Monet exhibit. I really enjoy Monet because of the connection to music  and how music influences much of his work. The museum had his Water Lilies Triptych and it was the first time that all three painting of that work had been together since Monet’s death. They told us at the museum that this probably would not happen again in my lifetime, so I was very excited to get to see that exhibit.