St. Louis Adventures

A little over a week until school is back in session and I had to have one more summer adventure! My friend Tiff just bought a house and she asked me to trek to St. Louis with her to retrieve some things her grandmother had for her for the house. Why not??! We braved the new airport restrictions and hopped a plane Friday morning to the heat of the midwest. Once we found the rental car, our first stop was to see Tiff's grandmother, who runs a junkyard in dodwntown St. Louis. It has been there for fifty years and really should be named a historical landmark. Unfortunately, her neighbors are giving her a hard time and trying to force her to close down. Mark was incredibly jealous to find out where we were going and would have been in pig heaven digging around in all of the tires and other assorted car parts. Maybe next time....





We then went to try and explore the riverfront, down by the arch but traffic was crazy and it took about an hour to move a half mile. I remember the arch from when I was younger and visited it while we lived in the Midwest, but it was much bigger in person than in my memory. We didn't have time to tour, but at least I was able to see part of the riverfront and a bit of the city. Also drove by Cardinals stadium!!



We made it safely back to Grandma's house and went to eat dinner. Nothing particularly St. Louis style, but after a day of airplane peanuts and crackers anything was appealing. We loaded a bunch of goodies in the car for Tiff's new place and settled in for a good night's rest.

By 8:30am Saturday (St. Louis time) we were off on our seven-state tour back to North Carolina and the day actually went by faster than I expected. Had a pile of pancakes at Cracker Barrel, saw the cornfields of Illinois.......and Indiana, the rolling hills of Kentucky......and West Virginia.....and Virginia and made it back home by 10pm. Not bad...











The arch and the King of Beers....




Cornfields of IL













We found Santa in Indiana....

















All in all a great little road trip to end the summer!