St. Louis trip, "I had the time of my life, and I owe it all to you"

Dear Blog/Diary/Whatever you want to call this,
I've missed you a lot. I stopped writing for awhile because I got scared and confused and I didn't know how to put those feelings into words. I'll fill you in more about this madness in my head later, first let me tell you about the last couple days of my life. School ended on tuesday and I was beyond relieved. I was getting so tired of homework and difficult tests and just needed to relax. The first day of vacation my mother dropped me off at my girl scout leaders house and we went off to St. Louis. St. Louis is a four hour drive from where I live in kansas so with the help of music, car games, and many little conversations we arrived at the cabin we were going to stay at. It was a really nice place, way better then I excepted. It had three bathrooms, heating, and beds so it wasn't like we were in tents roughing it out or anything. The first day we arrived there was a tornado warning so we had to stay caught in the storm shelter. We made dinner as soon as the tornado was over and headed to the Galleria mall which can be described as heaven on earth. I live in a small town so we don't really have any cool stores so I had a lot of fun getting things from my favorite stores: H&M and Love Culture.

On the second day of the trip it was raining, but that didn't stop us from continuing the adventure. We went to the City Museum which was one of the craziest buildings i've ever been into. The only way I can think to describe it is like a mcdonalds playland times 500. It was like an adventure course with all these slides and stairs and different stops. It was super crowded. They had a really cool antique piano I got to plan and there also was an arts and crafts area and I made some awesome paintings/scribbles on a piece of paper. After the museum we headed off to see the Arch. At first no one wanted to go up and I was really disappointed but then a couple of my friends changed their minds and we went up on saw all of St. Louis from above. It was really cool and I enjoyed it a lot. The elevators you had to ride to get to the top looked like spaceships on the inside so I felt pretty awesome while going up. They also had a little museum underneath with talking robots. I was impressed. We lost our leader and one of the girls and almost had to call the police but then we found funnel cake and abandoned the plan. Eventually they found us and we stopped a potential disaster.

The third and last day was really fun as well. We had to wake up bright and early to go to the St. Louis Zoo which is like no other. It was free to enter but it was the prettiest zoo i've ever been too. It had all these fountains, fake water falls, monuments, and really cool bridges. The animals were also interesting. They had lions and tigers and monkeys and ostriches. It was fun to see. One of my friends almost got attacked by this gigantic bird and it was the funniest thing ever. After the zoo we headed to six flags. It was really nice for an amusement parks. They had all the looney tune characters dressed up in those fake suits and stuff. They designed all the stores to look like you were walking into a t.v. show. It was really nice. I started out on two huge roller coasters then realized that I didn't even like riding them. There was nothing fun about seeing your life flash before your eyes. The rest of the day I went around with the smaller group that was only doing the water rides and littler rides. We had dinner there and headed back to the cabin to make s'mores. I created my own fire, picked the sticks and everything. I was proud.

I really enjoyed the part of the trip where we talked and discussed different things. We had some deep conversations and got to know everyone better. I had a five star time and the trip was the perfect way to start out the summer.