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.