St. Louis

We spent a day and a half in St. Louis, and we had a lot of fun. We got there Monday night, and we tried the St. Louis style of pizza. It has a really thin crust and it's toppings go from edge to edge. The place we went was recommended to us by one of Isaac's classmates who is from there, but we didn't really like it very much. We prefer lots of crust on our pizza!

On Tuesday morning we drove to Taum Sauk Mountain and did the high point. And then Tuesday afternoon we went to Gateway Arch! 

It was really cold out, so we had to bring the kids blankets.

The arch was under construction, and the tram ride to the top was closed, so we didn't get to go up the arch, but we did get to go inside and warm up a bit. There was a small theater inside where they show a video about how the arch was designed and built.

Right across from the arch is the Old Courthouse, and that was a lot of fun. It was the courthouse where the famous Dred Scott case was tried. Now it's just a big museum, and there a lots of exhibits.

One of our favorite things in the courthouse was that in the middle, you can see all the way to the top.

You could even go up to the higher levels and look down from the balconies.

The old court rooms were pretty fun to look at. 

Joslyn's favorite part of the courthouse was the room where you could build your own arch. She had a lot of fun building it, but she liked pushing it over even more.

The next day we went to the St. Louis Zoo. The St. Louis Zoo is has free admission, and it is one of the top 10 zoos in the country. So they have a lot of animals that we don't have in the zoos around here. Our favorite was probably the elephants. I think I've mentioned before that Dorian loves elephants, and he was pretty exited when he saw the real thing. It was so cute.

 They also have rhinos and hippos, but neither of those animals were out when we went. We were pretty bummed about that.

I just thought this bird was pretty funny.

Dorian really liked the turtles. They were right at his eye level when he stood at the glass, and he just followed them back and forth as the paced. It was pretty cute. 

Joslyn liked the monkeys the best. Her favorite was probably the "big sleeping monkey!" Haha, one of the gorillas was laying in a swing, and she kept talking about it in the car.

Across the street from the zoo is Turtle Park, where they have giant statues of turtles that you can climb and play on. The kids had fun with them. They could even fit in the snapping turtle's mouth!

We didn't get to do all the things that we wanted to in St. Louis, but the kids were having so much fun at the zoo that we decided to spend more time there and skip the other things.