Traveling to St Louis for a big occasion

Rhodri and I made our way to St. Louis this week so that we could attend Rhiannon's graduation from Principia School on this coming Sunday.  We traveled on Wednesday from London through Chicago to St. Louis, arriving at 8 pm ish.  This wasn't the original plan, since we had deliberately booked a flight with Air Canada via Montreal so that we could avoid Chicago! But we got notice on Tuesday after we had checked in for the flight that our flight was cancelled and we were rebooked on United via Chicago.  Whatever. It turned out totally fine in the end.  So we checked into our hotel at Hilton Frontenac and had a good first night sleep on Wednesday night.  

Then Thursday morning we got up quite early in order to collect the rental car at 7:30 am from a spot near the hotel.  Taking advantage of the free shuttle service from the hotel, we collected a giant red pickup truck!  This was not what I had booked, but I was pretty excited about it.

We then picked up Rhiannon from Principia and took her to a doctor's appointment since her foot was still bothering her since a football (soccer) collision a couple of weeks ago.  It was great that we could be there to take her to this appointment and spend the day with her.  Classes are finished for her now, so it was just a few special occasions that are scheduled to take place now in the final days of her high school experience.  

After the appointment, we headed to a shopping mall to look for a white dress for her to wear under her graduation gown.  So that took the rest of the afternoon, and we didn't manage to find the 'right' one, but we enjoyed just being with our girl.