Continuing our weekly countdown of my top ten dream family vacations, we come to #8…

St. Louis, MO.

Unfortunately, to be honest, my kids beat me to this before I could even get back into blogging and complete this top 10 that I started ages ago (seriously, I started these probably a year ago originally, so plenty has happened)…this past fall, the near-adult took the teens on a road trip, and they started in St. Louis.

I’d like to make the trek again…this time with all of us together.

Erik and I went to St. Louis several years ago. We had a lot of fun when I wasn’t at my blogging conference, and there’s plenty of sights we didn’t get to see, and there’s sights my kids didn’t get to see last year.

There is so much to do in St. Louis beyond the arch. There’s so much FREE stuff to do in St. Louis…and not free stuff. We could really go for a week and not have time to see it all.  From the Lemp Mansion for my ghost-hunting self, to the City Museum for the kids to have fun, to back to the brewery tour for my husband to have fun (again) and the girls to see the Clydesdales.

We live so close, relatively speaking, it’s a shame we haven’t day-tripped it once or twice.  Maybe we can get a run in before we move.

Have you been to St. Louis?  What was your favorite part?  Better yet, do you live there? What’s an insider tip we have to know?