Camping w/ Tate

These awesome fall days and nights gave us the idea to set up the tent for Tate and camp out at Wakefield State Park (a.k.a. our backyard). In hindsight, setup would have gone faster if we started while the sun was still up.
Tate was very excited to have a tent in the yard (and upset when it came down today).
Tate and his mom. She, being..."great with child"...opted to sleep indoors. Good call, considering the air mattress gradually lost air until I was basically sleeping on the ground.
Tate likes camping. He slept straight through the night. It was a little cool, but that just made him hibernate all the better. He's a happy camper (sorry, I couldn't resist).

More STL Pics...

Tate at the Science Center.
Watching traffic on I-64 through the triangle. Never gets old.
The STL zoo had a baby giraffe. It was pretty cool, especially after all of Tulsa's giraffe issues. If you don't know what I mean, go to images.google.com and search "Tulsa giraffe." Unless you're squeamish; then don't.

The STL

The pained look comes from the fact that Tate likes to steer by pulling my hair. He was a pretty good trooper and walked most of the way, though.
We got to see the chimps eating veggies; I made sure to point out to Tate that even monkeys eat their vegetables.
Tate by the penguins. I forgot how much I love this zoo. You could literally reach out and touch a penguin in the indoor habitat (that is, if there wasn't a guy watching to make sure you don't). As it was, the penguins were doing belly flops, so we got a little penguin water on us.
And of course, we had to take a choo-choo ride.