Missouri Botanical Gardens

We visited the Missouri Botanical Gardens this past week while my mom was here.  We went last summer but didn't get to see everything, so we saw some new things, and some favorites from last year.  They were having a special exhibit with Lego sculptures.  Here we are by the Lego Roto Tiller.

 Lego gardener

 Bald eagle

 Checking out the inside of a big tree

 Lego family of ducks

 Snake and mouse

 Lego praying mantis

 See the fear!

 Lego monarch butterfly

 Woodpecker

Lego bird feeder scene

 I think this flower used to be standing up

 There was a place to play with Legos too
Grant built this and told me it was an airplane.

They had a table with craft supplies too to make whatever you want.  Anna made this.

 Matthew made this Lego "ant"

 Lego sundial

 Sitting on a carriage

Lego mosaic scene.  I like how Grant is looking up at Matthew in this picture.  Lately Grant has been interested in doing whatever Matthew does.  Before I think Grant was a little too young to care.  Now he wants to do what big brother is doing more often.  They are four years apart in age.  So you will see Grant as Matthew's little shadow in a lot of these pictures.  Matthew is pretty patient with him.

 We walked around the Japanese garden area of the gardens.  This bridge was pretty cool.

 The pretty Japanese gardens

 Grant really liked this cool walkway in the Japanese gardens

 And we got to feed koi in the Japanese garden.  The kids had a great time doing that.

 And after enjoying the Japanese garden we went to the hedge maze.

The kids ran through it a bunch while I relaxed on a bench.

We sat on the big cake when we left.  St. Louis is turning 250 years old this year, so there are all these cake sculptures all over St. Louis.  We posed with the Botanical Garden one.  I'm glad we got to go back and had nice weather.  The Legos were cool and the Japanese gardens were really cool.  Always fun to see!