After the zoo we met Dawn and her kids for lunch at the Cheesecake Factory and did some more shopping. We then spent the rest of the afternoon swimming at the hotel.
For dinner we found out there was a Jimmy Johns around, so we decided we would have that and Dairy Queen for dinner. We made it to Jimmy Johns fine, then found the closest Dairy Queen in the GPS. We drove and drove, arriving in a pretty tough part of town. We kept having to turn around because following the GPS we would run into a blocked off road (gates, potted plants, etc.). Heather remembered hearing on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition that they do that to minimize the drive by's. Up until she told me that I was just annoyed that we were having difficulty finding Dairy Queen, but then I got pretty nervous. But we were SO close I figured might as well keep going. We finally arrived at the "Dairy Queen". The sign was basically still there, but the words "Dairy Queen" had been replaced by "Miami Grill"! We booked it out of there and gave up the search.
Tuesday morning we drove to our condo in St. Louis and dropped the girls off with a babysitter so we could all go to the temple. We met Dawn at the temple and left Ryan with her. It was nice to be in the temple together, my parents, plus all of my sisters and their spouses and my grandpa.
After the temple we said goodbye to everyone and made our way to Chicago. We had an early enough flight on Wednesday that we didn't want to have to rush too much in the morning. We found a hotel near the airport, but I didn't realize that US hotels could be as dumpy as the one I randomly chose. It was a Days Inn, I figured it couldn't be worse than some of the random places we would stop in Europe. Unfortunately, it was. But fortunately, we just had to sleep there and it ended up being fine.
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