Family Road Trip - Missouri🚗🗺👨‍👩‍👧‍👦😁

We took a week long trip at the start of June! We were invited to perform a concert at a church's 50th anniversary in Wisconsin, and on the way we stopped by St. Louis for a couple days to visit Mom's family. It had been four years since we had taken a family trip so we were all very excited for it!😁 We rented a transit van to carry all of us and our stuff. We brought our sound equipment and it was a tight squeeze to get that and the luggage in, but we made it work😄
Packing up what we could the night before.
We headed out bright and early at 7am Wednesday morning!
The trip to St. Louis was about 7 hours. A few minutes after we got to Grandpa and Grandma's, the tornado sirens went off.😱 We all hurried down to the basement and thankfully it just missed us.🙏🏻 What a bang to start the trip with!😂
The next day we took a trip to the zoo!
The polar bears were my top favorite! One was swimming in their pool and doing all sorts of antics😄
Lunch at Lakeside Cafe.
My favorite moment from this day was getting to meet a friend of seven years for the FIRST time! It was so special to meet and spend the day together🥰 (And yes...the matching shirts were planned😁)
Back at Grandpa & Grandma's and playing Codenames.😎


Stay tuned for Part 2 - Wisconsin!😁


~Grace

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