Happy St Patrick's Day 2013

Over the weekend, the family made our annual trip downtown for the St. Patrick's celebration. We managed to get down there a little early so we decided to have dinner at the top of the Hilton hotel at the 360 bar/restaurant. The kids really enjoyed the views and of course the Cherry soda with extra cherries. Here is a picture of Bo looking out the window checking out all the buildings and people that looked like ants. He could be dreaming of being the architect someday.
Since you can walk around and see a complete 360 degree view of the city, we had to go look at the baseball stadium where the Cardinals play. After dinner, we went swimming and watched movies in the hotel room.

Saturday morning we woke up to cold gloomy weather. We got all bundled up to do the 5 mile run. The kids were good sports and sat in the stroller the whole time while Daddy pushed them and Mommy ran with us. Bo kept the blanket over his head for the most part and Emmy didn't want the blanket at all because then she couldn't see all the people and funny green outfits they were wearing. We were hoping they would take a little nap but they started getting anxious with about a mile to go. The wind was not helping but we made it.

After the run, we changed into our green outfits and tattoos of course for the parade at noon. Thanks to Jeremy for saving us a spot while we finished the run and got ready. This is a picture right before we headed out and got bundled up from our room.

They kids had their own chairs to watch so they could catch some candy.
After the parade, we went back inside to get warm again. We took a short nap, ate some cheeseburgers and went swimming again. All-in-all it was a successful weekend. However Emmy did ask Monday if it was St. Patrick's day again. When we told her it wasn't, she was happy because she could wear pink now and no more green.