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Practically the first thing we all did on our little get-together today was eat. What else is there?

We went to this place called Yia-Yia’s, which of course, would be Greek for Grandma’s. If I were to write a review for the place, I think I’d say something like this:

The food was absolutely marvelous — seasoned and cooked just right, it tasted wonderful. But I still left hungry.

Yeah, that part sucked. Wouldn’t have been so bad if the food was cheaper, but it wasn’t. We did pass the camera around the table though. ;-)
K felt the same way as me, but C had gotten much more food than the two of us and she couldn’t even finish hers, it was totally weird the way that was handled.

We then went over to The Butterfly House. This is, of course, in St. Louis, but in all my life I don’t think I’ve ever been there. It was quite interesting. They have small exhibits and such out in the main area and then you can go into the green house type of thing where it is extremely hot and humid and there are probably hundreds of butterflies flying around. It was awesome.

I took photos, of course, but more were blurry than not. I will attach some of the better ones however. (You’ll have to see the bottom of this post.) But it was totally neat to have them all just flying around. Some of them weren’t afraid of us at all and we were able to get really close to them (no touching though, of course) while others would take off before you were within 3 feet of them. There were also some tiny quail birds running around, they were so dang cute. They weren’t too scared either and would just walk across the path not caring if someone were to step on them or not.

And while the butterflies and birds were so beautiful, I think the grossest thing I saw today was the big aquarium full of millipeeds. HUGE ones, too. They were so gross I didn’t take a photo… or of the spider as big as my hand, or the scorpions, or the other strange bugs that were absolutely huge.

We walked around the park a little bit, and got to see the carousel, too. Then we left and headed back to our area, getting some dessert at Steak ‘n’ Shake. Returning to our cars, we said we’ll have to do something like this again, and we went our separate ways.

I headed to the store for a few things for tomorrow then went home. At home I found the messiest toddler I’ve ever seen… well, almost. He had chocolate all up and down his right arm and across his face and his clothes were nasty. He was even worse after I tried to get him to eat supper. So I threw him in the bathtub. He played for a while and then right before I went to start this post he started screaming. He had tried to open his tub of clothes that don’t fit him yet and had gotten his left thumb stuck between the lid and the tub itself. I went in there and he was shaking his hand trying to get it loose. He’s in bed now that he’s calm again… nothing’s broken, he’ll live.

And I’m… bored… there’s so much I could be doing but I just don’t feel like doing anything. Maybe I’ll go to bed early and actually get some sleep tonight… yeah, sounds good to me.

Oh yeah, the food… the first is mine, the 2nd C’s, and the 3rd is K’s. I got the salmon (yummy), C got the chicken, and K got the beef tenderloin. We all had an appetizer of hummus and some chicken. I’ve never had hummus before, it was quite good. I showed Steve the pictures and he saw mine (it was the first we took all day) and said, “Ewwwwwwww.” Haha. I was quite surprised though that I actually turned over beef for fish! What has happened to me!!?!

Now, if you can’t already see the photos, there are 12 of them total, then click the comments link and scroll up a bit… These are small resolution due to me posting too many photos. If you want to see bigger, ask or they’ll probably all eventually end up on my photoblog. :)