May 17, 2012

Some of you may know that St. Louis was the beginning of the Westward expansion, or what we know better as the Lewis and Clark Expedition. St Louis is home to the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, also known as the Gateway Arch. We arrived after 1:30 and got tickets to go up in the arch on the 3:30 trip. Tickets were sold out for the day shortly after that.

This is one National Park they don't charge for.

Was this the truth...or one of those white lies we tell our moms?

Can you imaging the amount of work that had to be done?

A valuable resource for the settlers. Practically nothing was wasted.

Been there, done that.

What a view, and on another clear day. Do we really want to go home with this weather.

Steps down to the St. Louis riverfront, the Mississippi that is.

You kind of have to move back to get it all in the picture.

Here is a picture of them whatchamacallits. Went to see if we could find that Jimmy Buffet fella again. Congratulations to my grandson Drew for scoring his first run today.