Our 2 Day Trip in St Louis

We stayed at a hotel right across the street from the Arch in St. Louis.  One of the girl's favorite things was to sit in the window and look down to the ground.  I think we stayed on the 11th floor.

We rode inside the little cars to the top of the arch.  It kind of felt like we had time travelled back to the 1960s.

We met our friends the Summers in St Louis.  The kids loved running around the field by the Arch when we arrived.

We visited City Museum while in St Louis.  It was an amazing array of tunnels, bridges, caves, slides and ladders.  The kids and adults loved this museum.  It was so fun and unique.

Layla on one of the many bridges at City Museum.  Layla was a little nervous walking on these tall bridges and being able to see through the floor to the street below. 

City Museum had an indoor skate park for running and jumping.  No skateboarding allowed.  Layla was a champ at sliding down the steep ramps.

The Arch was bigger and more magnificent than I had imagined.

This is Monk Mound at Cahokia.  Visiting Cahokia fullfilled a lifelong goal of mine.  It is one of the largest sites in North America of Native American culture.  I had learned about it as a teenager and didn't know where exactly it was.  When we got to our hotel in St Louis I found an advertisment for it and was so excited it was in the St Louis area.