Anniversary Trip Part 1

For our second anniversary and Barrett's 25th birthday, we took a quick weekend trip to St. Louis, Missouri. We arrived in St. Louis Friday evening. Our accommodations were at the Hilton Hotel downtown. The hotel was a renovated bank building and was really nice!



After checking into our hotel, we decided on a nice local Italian restaurant for supper. The restaurant had a great menu with wonderful food. After we ate, we headed back to the hotel to rest up and plan our busy Saturday of adventure around St. Louis.

Our first stop on the trip was the famous St. Louis Arch.

Me in front of the Arch!

We were a little nervous about the cart ride to get to the top of the arch!

View from the top!

And another...

We made it back down safely! :)

Our second stop for the day was at the Basilica of Saint Louis. This church was the first church in St. Louis. Unfortunately, we were not able to go inside because they were having a wedding, but I made sure to take pictures of the outside!

Basilica of Saint Louis

Close up

The third stop in St. Louis was to the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis. This cathedral was built well after the first church. This specific cathedral is world renowned for the mosaic work inside.

View walking up to the cathedral

Getting closer...

Absolutely breathtaking...

After leaving the cathedral we headed to the St. Louis zoo. We were both really excited that admission to the zoo was FREE!! I have to say this was by far the best zoo I have been to. They have EVERY animal you can imagine and it is HUGE! Barrett and I had to put our "power walking" shoes on because we only had 2 hours to see all the attractions and animals. These picture are just a few of my favorites...

Hungry Hippo

B getting some love! :)

Zebra

One of my favs

Yay for the elephant! ROLL TIDE!

After all of our site seeing around St. Louis we were pretty tired! We went to Landry's for dinner to celebrate Barrett's birthday!

We highly recommend St. Louis as a fun weekend get-a-way place. There are several things to do around the city and we were surprised by how many things you can do for little or no cost!

I will post "Part 2" of our trip later!