Meet me in St Louis

On Monday August 11th we had to say goodbye to the Platt's and started our 9 hour drive to Arkansas to visit Grandma Nelson. We were not thrilled about a 9 hour drive, but St Louis was the half way point so that helped break up the trip a little bit.
We only spent about 2 hours in St Louis so we didn't get to see too much but what we saw was really cool. It was a cute little city and super clean. Again right along the river so it made it pretty cool.The Mississippi never disappoints!

One of the bridges as we came across the Mississippi.

First  view of St Louis.

 

The Arch

 

Touching the Arch. We were going to go inside and ride the elevators up but the line to even get inside the lobby was about 30 minutes long so we decided to forgo that idea. 

 

Across from the Arch is the Dred Scott court house museum. Ethan was especially excited about this and it was air conditioned so we actually spent a lot of time in here. It was a really cool free museum that taught us a lot about the Dred Scott case and the beginnings of St Louis as a city.

 

The court house was especially cool because they let you go everywhere without supervision. We went all the way up to the top of the dome (not inside but as high as the floors would take us) which isn't THAT high, but still really cool.  

Inside the lobby of the museum. Kelsey loved the flag.

 

Cute little garden across from the museum

Where the Cardinals play

 After the court house we headed to a little pub for lunch (where we passed a LEFTY ONLY STORE!! AWESOME!) and then it was time to make the rest of the drive down to Arkansas.

I was DYING to go see where they held the World's Fair because I just had to sing "Meet me in St. Louis" (kind of like how I HAD to sing Rudy on the fields of Notre Dame) but we just ran out of time. Maybe again, but maybe not. Either way, St Louis was really cool.