Our first road trip

Recently Amelia and I went on our first road trip. Our friends Andrea and Shelby (darren too) are moving soon - and not just a few miles away - hundreds of thousands of miles away. all the way to Germany! We decided to go spend a few days with them before they left. I should mention, the furthest I had driven alone was Springfield, IL so this was going to be quite an adventure. I packed our suitcases, loaded the car and off we went. Oh, and thanks to amelia's Tia, we also had a portable DVD player to help ease our trip. We went on a lot of fun day trips while we were there and have some fun pics to show for it! enjoy!


Here is what you see when you enter Ohio - not bad. a nice small blue arch. I have heard that imitiation is the most sincere form of flattery.

Here is what you see when you enter Missouri - I don't think ohio's arch is as quite as nice as our St. Louis arch! On with the pictures! Here is Shelby waiting on her Sushi on our first night there.

Amelia tries to master chop sticks!

We went to the outlet mall on day 2, and i have no pics from that. Hmm, well we did shop A LOT and got a few great deals - stride rite sandals for $14.99, stride rite tennis shoes for $14.99 and lots of clothes for the baby. Mostly in 6-9 month range. The next day we went to Young's Dairy Farm to visit the goats and eat ice cream :) Yummy! Amelia was most excited to go!

Amelia wanted to ride the barrel car ride - what is this thing called? anyone? She had ridden it at the punkin patch before so i thought we were all set. i was wrong. Here she is getting strapped in. (note:she is about 4 cars from the end)

She took her puppy with her - i advised her against it, but she would not be swayed.

Amelia adjust the wheel... And they're off! Bye Amelia, have fun!!
Meanwhile, Shelby went to meet the goats!
And the return - apparently Amelia started crying 1/2 way through the ride and the driver had to stop and go get her. Poor Amelia. I felt so bad for her. I think it might have had something to do with the evil kneivel driver. she really had this little ride going!
After her thrill ride, Mia decided to take things down a notch and go see the goats. Much more her speed. She really liked them!

And she really liked feeding them.

they were more interested in eating her puppy and her hat.
Andrea thought the barrel ride looked like fun and decidd to take a spin! i told her she was too big, but she was determined to go!
just kidding - she was really taking Shelby for a ride! She did attest that the lady had the ride moving and shaking!
That was our trip to Young's Dariy farm. As for the rest of our trip, we had a great time! We went to the world's biggest smallest toy story in hippie-ville USA, to the outlet mall for a day of shopping and to some small boutiques too. It was a great trip all around! thanks for having us!