Catching Up

I am getting behind in posting our events, so I will do a quick post on the events over the past week.

Brad and I went to Mexico, Missouri and saw Big Smith in concert. They were great!

On the way back the next day we stopped in at Fulton to see the Winston Churchill museum. On the campus of Westminster College, Winston Churchill made his famous Iron Curtain speech during WWII. In the 60's an organization decided to have this church (it had first been constructed in the 1400's, then bombed, burned, gutted, rebuilt, bombed again and left for ruin) moved from London, brick by brick, and then reconstructed in Fulton (with a museum added) in memory of the famous speech. Fascinating!

Here is the website if you are interested in learning more: http://www.churchillmemorial.org/

Winston Churchill's granddaughter made this art from pieces of the Berlin Wall. It blows me away to be able to see and touch such a piece of history.

We took a stroll around the capitol one evening and saw the new Lewis and Clark exploration area.

This is either Lewis or Clark. Not sure.

Again, Lewis or Clark. Not sure. But loving the new pic app on the phone. Fun!

State Capitol. Looking at it from the Missouri river side. We sat in the treed area between the columns and the building for the fireworks on the 4th.

Monday, we took the kids to an area water park in order to escape the 104 degree temperature. They had so much fun! Everyone became a pro at the river rapids and body slides. We came home tired and only slightly sun burnt. But we fared well for 7 hours in the sun.

That should just about catch you up.

St. Louis trip next week and then travel home shortly after that.