Since I last posted, we spent 2 nights at Babler Memorial State Park, just west of St. Louis.
Here’s another shot of a moonrise at Babler. It’s been beautiful!
This set us up well to visit the city of St. Louis for a day. We went to the St. Louis Zoo and the St. Louis Art Museum in Forrest Park. And both were free!
We got some lunch at an excellent Cuban restaurant and headed over to the Arch Museum. What was only about a 10 or 15 minute drive took considerably longer as we encountered massive downpours and gale force winds. We ended up stopping under an overpass (with many others) on the freeway. In fact, when we arrived at the Arch museum we were pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t too crowded. Only to find out that the fire alarm had been set off to evacuate the building because of flooding at the entrance!
The next morning we packed up and headed towards Indianapolis. It was also the first day of school – pictures and all!
Overall the first day went well, but there were a lot of emotions as we thought about friends and colleagues back at Columbia Elementary in Colorado Springs. We are missing them a lot, but trust that their school year goes well, as we hope ours does. Grateful for technology to keep us connected!
We’re starting to settle into this new ‘normal’. It still feels like summer vacation (especially when it’s 84 degrees and 95% humidity), but we’re enjoying the challenges and adventure so far. It’s not always easy, but most worthwhile things aren’t.
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