April 20, Resurrection Sunday: Ft. Zumwalt Cake

Resurrection Sunday dawned bright and early for us with a Sunrise Service at 370 Lakeside park. This has become a loved tradition for our family. Beautiful setting, close to home. A personalized service that I created, melding several traditions that I like. 

After lunch, we headed out to get one cake in O'Fallon. Alex had actually seen this cake before. It was the first cake she spotted. Her class at Lewis and Clark Career Center had a field trip to the park to work on the landscaping and she actually worked around the trees next to this cake. 

Fort Zumwalt Park

Back of cake. You can see one of the trees Alex worked on. 

April 19: St. Charles Cakes

 On April 19, the whole family ventured out on our first official cake hunt. We visited the sites of all the St. Charles/St. Peters cakes. We started at the Courthouse. This cake has a lot of detail.

St. Charles County Courthouse

 Then we ventured over a few blocks to the Shrine of St. Rose Philippine Duschesne.

Shrine of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne

Next we headed over to the Missouri First Capital. We have had some fun visits to this site in the past. The tour of the building is interesting and we have also been to fun children's festivals on the lawn.

First Capital of Missouri

The other view of the Capital cake. 

 On our walk from the capital to the boathouse, we stopped to visit Lewis, Clark and their dog Seaman.

At the Lewis and Clark Statute on the Missouri River front

 Last stop on the river, Lewis and Clark Boathouse and Nature Center. This is a fun place to tour.

Lewis and Clark Boathouse

Lewis and Clark Boathouse

We left the river front and headed over to my other alma mater, Lindenwood. I finished out my college days here with a degree in Elementary Education. This campus has also changed quite a bit since my days as a student.

Lindenwood University

 The cake at the Heritage Museum is very pretty. This is a museum that is on my list of places to tour, but we have not yet gotten to that yet. We must do that soon!

St. Charles County Heritage Museum

Last stop. Katy Trail.

Centennial Greenway/Katy Trail

You can see the 364 bridge in the background of this picture.

March 26: St. Louis Science Center

This was the first cake that we, as a family, came across. Alex had seen the one at Ft. Zumwalt Park and others on her field trip and on bus rides for school and I had seen them in pictures that friends had taken, but this was the first cake I actually saw live. So this began our adventure. I had not yet looked up the website and learned about the whole collection and where they all were so it was exciting to stumble across one on our trip to the Science Center. 

We visited the center during Spring Break. The schedule for Spring Break was rather full of activities for a week off of school and this was the only day we really had free to go explore. Our original plan was to go to the Botanical Gardens or the zoo, but the weather wasn't cooperating, so we decided to go see the Imax film about Jerusalem. It was very interesting.We took a virtual  tour of the holy city from the perspective of three young women from the different sections of town, Jewish, Christian Muslim. It was well done, though it was one of the more dizzying IMax films. 

While we were there, I talked the kids into visiting the Life Science Lab. I have always wanted to go do this, but it has never worked out on previous visits. The kids are getting a bit old for it now, but they humored me because I had really wanted to do this for so long. I think they ended up enjoying it. :-) Alex and Jessica chose the "Be a Crime Scene Investigator" activity, a forensics experiment in which they had to find the suspect by studying the chemical reactions of various marker inks. Jacob chose to do an experiment with DNA. 

St. Louis Science Center

Being a science buff, this is one of my favorite cakes. :-)