The Arch

 We went to see the arch in St. Louis this weekend.  It's about 20 minutes from our house and the kids have been wanting to go see it up close.  And here we are pretty close to it!  It was a warm day.

 

Here we are walking up to the arch.  Glad for shade!

 And going down under the arch to see the museum.

The museum is free but we had to wait in an airport security type line.

We rode some little pods up to the top of the arch.

Grant wasn't too sure about it.  It was a little claustrophobia inducing.

It was a Saturday and kind of crowded up there at the top, so we didn't really want to stay too long.

 Here is the Illinois side (looking east) - Mississippi River then Illinois

And here is the Missouri side (looking west).  You can see Busch Stadium where the Cardinals play there on the left.  Matthew kept asking me why it was so red.  :)  These pictures make the Illinois side look a little boring, don't they.  We do have a lot of corn fields over there.

 And back down again we had fun looking at the museum displays

A big wheel from a steamboat (I think?)

 Buffalo/bison

 Covered wagon

 Grant found a horse

 And here are the kids sitting in one of the pods like the ones that go up the arch

And in a teepee they had on display (they were allowed to go in this one).  We also got to watch the Lewis and Clark movie (the National Geographic one) which they had playing there.  It's a good movie and the kids were excited to see some that they had been to some of the places Lewis and Clark went (Fort Clatsop).  So it was lots of fun.  They are already asking when we can go back.

And here is the arch again as we were leaving.

It was hard to get a picture of the whole thing.