Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and...

maybe North Carolina, all in one day. We hope to get home tonight, if we are not too tired. We'll see.

Last night we had this view from our hotel room...

Then later, we were up in the arch! I was pointing towards home...while Poppop was thinking about the trip on Rte 66, which was out the other windows of the arch..

Getting down from the arch, we rode in a little room with no windows that rocks like a ferris wheel ride. It was a little scary...

But we got down safely....6000 people a day ride up and down inside the arch just to get to the top and see the view. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/monuments/stlouisarch/

Best of all, after the arch, we dressed up nice and went to dinner at a restaurant that turned around....in one hour and 45 minutes, the round restaurant turned around one whole revolution. That means that while we were enjoying our dinner, we got to see all of St. Louis, plus the sunset and plus a lightning storm way out on the horizon.

Oklahoma!

HI, Mia, Simon, and Charles!

Wow...I have been toooo busy to blog. BUT today we thought about Charlie, Simon and Mia because we saw lots of antique toys...and a crazy airplane made out of cut up coca cola cans. We were in a museum in Elk City, Oklahoma. Can you guess how old those dolls are? and the car and bicycle? Poppop saw plenty of old cars today. which are like old toys to him!!!

We visited an old school house that was last used 80 years ago. These are the rules that the teachers had to obey in order to work as a teacher at this school...wow...I don't think I could be a teacher then.

Tomorrow, we are going to St. Louis, MO...I am excited because I have always wanted to go back there...I took your mommy there in 1989...we rode to the top and saw far, far away..

http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Gateway_Arch.html

more later...Love, Nana...