Missouri Vacation Day 5 & 6 (Wordful Wednesday)

I've been having computer issues so I've neglected my blog.  Luckily tech support, aka my husband, was able to fix it! :)

Here are the last vacation pics from our trip.  We drove home through St. Louis and spent a day there.
We went to the zoo...

Their zoo has a build a bear in it with exclusive animals so this was Claire's treat on the trip.  She got to get a new animal that you can't get anywhere else!  She picked a leopard.

We stopped by to see the Cathedral Basilica.  It is beautiful!!  I don't have good pictures of the inside because they were about to have a confirmation mass so we just peeked in for a few minutes.

We were told to go to Ted Drewes for some frozen custard.  Yum!!!!

We also took the Anheiser Busch Brewery Tour.  It was a great tour.  I told Chris it was his reward for going to the zoo earlier in the day. :)

They have an awesome facility!

 

And an awesome hospitality room!

We were in St. Louis the day that the tornado hit Joplin.  We had to drive through Joplin the next day.  We passed a huge caravan of ambulances and emergency help vehicles on their way there.

My heart goes out to all of the people there.  The destruction was awful. We were just on the interstate so we didn't see the main damage, but there was damage all around the interstate.  Trees and billboards were just snapped in half.  And they were getting more storms as we drove through.

We actually drove most of the way from St. Louis to Tulsa in heavy thunderstorms.  We considered staying in St. Louis an extra day, but there were tornadic thunderstorms in the forecast for the next day so we decided to just drive through the regular thunderstorms.  Thank goodness for modern weather forecasting.  Since the storms don't build up until the afternoon we were able to leave Tulsa and drive home the last day and get in before the tornadic storms hit.  And there were tornadoes that night.  Several touched down here in north Texas and Oklahoma.  Pretty much all the places we had been earlier in the day!  Our sirens went off, but we didn't have a tornado.

Our trip was great, but after the drive back, we were very thankful to be home and safe!

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