Reunion time!!!!!

What a wonderful weekend we had in St. Louis!!! Our adoption agency, Children's Hope International, had their 15 year reunion!!!! It was awesome!!!

We were also able to have a mini reunion of most of our travel group! We had 5 of our 9 families get together this year and have a time of getting together and letting our children have a wonderful time of playing together! It was neat to see how much the Fuling Spicy Girls have grown over the last 2 years!!! They are all just beautiful!!! After the first inital shock of getting together, it was awesome to hear the giggles and laughter, screams of delight, watching the hugs shared between Fuling sisters that share that common bond of Fuling as their home!

After the CHI reunion, we all headed to the hotel for some rest and time in the pool!! Needless to say, Hope didn't make it to the pool!!! She was wiped out! She slept from the time we got in the car from the reunion to the hotel, in her stroller for a while, crawled in the bed and slept for a little while longer. Then everyone came back up starting to get ready for dinner!!!! So she didn't get to swim, but had a wonderful time at dinner, eating mac and cheese and chicken fingers and let's not forget the vanilla ice cream that was quickly turned into a chocolate soup by all of the girls!!!! It was YUMMY!!!!

On Sunday 4 of the families headed down for breakfast and then headed out to the St. Louis zoo!!! It was fun!!! We saw all kinds of animals and a group of silly monkeys that seemed to follow us everywhere full of giggles and laughter!!!! Then we had to make to walk to the front gate and tell one family "Until next time" because they had a plane to catch. Then it was back off for more exploring and trying to find the missing elephants!!!! We had some lunch and stood in front of the cool air mister for a few minutes and then off again on the hunt for elephants!!! Once we spotted them, it was MISSION ACCOMPLISHED for the Fuling Spicy Girls family!!! Then it was off to the gift shop and on to the car and on to the highway headed home. Hope was asleep before we got to the highway!!! I'm sure others followed quickly!!!

We stopped at a Cracker Barrel for dinner! It was fun watching Fred try to teach Hope how to play checkers!!! She came up with her own rules for this game with daddy and lets just say they changed often!!! So she proudly came back to the table declaring victory over her daddy!!!

It was a wonderful time visiting with everyone!!!!
I'll get pictures up soon!!!!!