Saint Louis

Following a night in a Tennessee State Park, we drove to St Louis to visit friends for the weekend. On Saturday, we visited the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (the Arch). The arch was more impressive than I expected. The museum there was very nice, and the movie about how they built the arch really drove home what an engineering feat it was.

 

While claustrophobic, the elevator system used to take visitors up to the top of the arch was really interesting, and the views of St Louis and the Mississippi River were pretty great.

Today we visited the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site. US Grant's house was a bit of a disappointed after how much we liked Eisenhower's. To be fair, however, they are a fairly new park, and had just moved the visitor's center into a new building, so not all the exhibits were set up. It should get better in the next few years.

We also took a tour of the Anheuser Busch factory. It was interesting, and the kids enjoyed seeing the stables of the Clydesdales. I enjoyed the free beer in the tasting room.

Finally, we stopped for some frozen custard.