Celebration

It has been a busy weekend for us. Many days of celebration. Josh and I took our trip to Six Flags on Saturday and celebrated Josh's last day of being 30.

We enjoyed the WILD coasters including Mr. Freeze (Josh's fave), Evel Knieval, the Boss, and Screamin Eagle. It was extremely busy there. We went to Hurricane Harbor, but decided not to swim. It was so crowded and busy and honestly kinda nasty. We had a lot of fun at HH the previous trip. Anyway, we still LOVE roller coasters. I laughed at Josh because he gets a freeze frame face when he rides. I giggle the whole time. Other than that, we watched what we have named the MIPS and the IHIPS. Here is a picture...notice the left lane.

Yes, the Illinois and Missouri police are using motorcycles quite often these days. We saw more MIPS and IHIPS than squad cars. We named them that because of the CHIPS TV show. They were out in mass force especially yesterday morning. The states must need A LOT of extra funds.

Here are some typical St. Louis landmarks that we saw as we drove through.

We had fun and a nice day, but we were tired when we arrived home. I was going on a hopping 2 hours of sleep.

Now, for today--Josh's birthday. I got him a nice shiny blue Kenmore grill. He put it together today and I will post a pic when I get one. He was gonna grill tonight, but we were out of gas. He chose our fave pizza place for lunch and it proved to be yummy.

Side note...there was just some shouting as the American men won the gold in the 4x100 freestyle...a very CLOSE race and just pulled out at the end-keeping Phelps 8 gold hunt alive.

After yummy lunch, we headed to Coldstone for a treat. Josh got a Cake Batter with graham cracker mixed in. The girls enjoyed mint w/ brownie.

It was a fun day. Tomorrow, we celebrate Aliyah's last day of being five and then it's off to Chicago for more birthday fun. What a beautiful weekend!