Meet Me In St. Louis, Day 1

Earlier in the year, Keith and I were so excited to start planning our next tropical vacation. We knew immediately the place we wanted to go--Antigua!! The thoughts of another Sandals resort with warm weather, all you can eat and drink, and the sounds of the ocean quickly filled our brains.  All of these ideas quickly went out the window, though, when we decided in May to put an offer on our first house.  We decided that Antigua would have to wait and a few weekend trips would be our best route.  


Around the same time that the thoughts of Antigua were fleeting out the window, our very dear friends, Kevin and Savannah Richardson, invited us on a fun road trip to St. Louis, Missouri for a long weekend trip.  So the weekend of July 14-17th we packed our bags and headed out West!


Our first stop was at the Richardson's home in Mt. Washington, Kentucky.  Here is Keith, Tif, and Savannah about to hop into the Soul.  Weeeeeeeeeee!

Our next stop was to pick up Kevin from work.  He quickly hopped in the car and we were on our way!

Along our journey we were starting to get a little hungry.  We all decided that Subway sounded delicious and couldn't wait to choose our favorite Subway sandwich.  Unfortunately when we pulled up, this is what we saw.

Apparently the Subway had some fire damage so needless to say, we would not be eating dinner here.

The next closest stop--Dairy Queen!   

I would have much rather had ice cream for dinner (yum!) but chose the "Trukey" sandwich instead. ;)

After our delicious meals, we were back in the Soul and ready to roll! St. Louis or Bust!

When we arrived at the Crowne Plaza St. Louis, we immediately checked out the view from our room.  Not too shabby, eh?

The "Gateway to the West" right outside of our window! Beautiful!

We decided to explore the hotel and headed to the rooftop pool.  Check out the view!

Of course we had to pose for some pics! 

Keith & Tif

Kev & Savannah 

Grand Little & Grand Big 

Our last stop for the evening was the hotel bar & patio.  Here we enjoyed a delicious one of these:

I had to take a picture of the anchor! +)

The first one to sleep that night was Savannah.  Who will it be tomorrow night?