Gabriel's brother graduated basic training just 6 hours from us. So me and the girls went to watch the festivities. Gabriel was on another dang business trip and didn't get to come celebrate with us. Traveling 5 days with 2 small children and staying in a different place every night is not something I will do again any time soon.
The girls love staying at hotels because they know that that usually means swimming! My children really did inherit the "dolphin" name because the love the water. Of course I was by myself with 2 children in a pool so I was a responsible parent and didn't take any pictures but we did have lots of fun.
The army base was 2 hours south of St. Louis so before the graduation we spent the day at the zoo, the pool, dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory (my fav!), and the Arch.
So if you go back to one of my very first post it was the St. Louis zoo. Brigitte was under a year old and the giraffe's were her favorite so I tried to re create the same pictures because once again they were inside not outside.
The giraffe when we were there last time was just a little baby and it makes me wonder if this is the same giraffe...
We couldn't fit the double stroller in the rental car so we comprised. At first Brigitte didn't like it but after awhile she was asking Violet to sit on her lap and never wanted to walk!
The closet thing we found to a horse
It was so hot this day and they are standing on the air vents it felt so nice in there and the seals were entertaining to watch swim over our heads.
I love walking down to the Arch along the river it is so pretty and there is so much grass for girls to run on.
Violet's new little buddy Charmaine
We stayed at a really neat hotel called the Cheshire. Every room was themed after an old English poet or author. We had the guy who wrote The Wind in the Willow. Of course they also had to give us a room with the view of the pool! The pool was a warm 68 degrees and of course didn't bother the girls one bit!
Graduation
The only picture I could get the girls to take with Uncle Austin in uniform!
So this is Austin's group. The graduation was so fun and of course I had never been to one. If you ever get a chance it is a pretty neat experience.
Austin was one of 6 out of 124 that graduated to get an award. He got the fitness award which he score a 295 out of 300.
The youngest and oldest Dauphin
Sister love!
Violet got to go bowling with Uncle Denny and had a BLAST!
Park fun right before we had to go home!
Graduation
Mama Dauphin and her baby!
My favorite picture of the whole trip I think
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