Day 48 The St. Louis Arch

Today was another long day. We were going to take a shorter route to St. Louis, but it got flooded by the Missouri River. So it was one detour after another looking for a place we could cross the river. It was also so foggy that you could look straight into the sun and it wouldn’t hurt your eyes…so we took pictures of it. Of course, that meant it was also hard to see the road. Finally, we got past all the detours and arrived at our destination: The Gateway of the West (otherwise known as the St. Louis Arch).

When we got there, even from the road, the arch was towering over our car. We went to a grand visitor’s center before going to the arch. Then we went to the arch itself. We bought tickets; then we went up to the top. To get to the top, we had to cram into a tiny tram that was circular and only held 5 people. It was in the inside of the legs of the arch. We could see the construction of the inside through a little window in the door. It took 4 minutes to get up, but only 3 to come back down. A cool part about the tram was that, even though we were going through the arch on an angle, we were always sitting straight up and down. At the top, I looked out the tiny windows and I could see all of St. Louis (well, that might be exaggerating a little). On the way back down we met up with a nice lady who rode down with us. We went outside and admired the arch.