To the Gateway Arch

With Kathee's sister's family in town, we did a bunch of cool stuff with them.  One of the days they were here, we went down to the Arch.  

Everytime we've seen it from a distance, we point it out and tell the kids, "sometime we'll go to the Arch."  Great, they have no idea what that is and have no concept of what happens at the Arch.  So when we got out of the parking lot (underneath the Arch), I showed Gideon the windows at the top of the Arch and told him we were going to to the top of the Arch.  He was really excited.  And he got more excited when I told him we wouldn't be taking the steps (like he thought) but would be taking an elevator up.  

The elevator-ride up was a lot of fun.  Our family fit in one space pod while Sharon and Jamie's (and Grandpa Karl) fit in the other.  

The older two loved looking out the windows at the stairs as we headed to the top of the Arch.  

Hope and Cousin W had a blast looking out the window and watching the tourist helicopter below landing and taking off ever couple of minutes.  

As always, I love looking out and seeing the stadium of the greatest baseball team on the planet.  What a gorgeous stadium, and what a great day to be in the Arch.  

After coming down, we ate a picnic lunch on the grounds before dropping the girls off at the apartment, so the guys could head to the Museum and Transportation.