St. Louis

After all this paper work I treated myself to a little two day trip to St. Louis, Missouri/Illinois. After a three and a half hour train ride, we, Julia, Ludmila and I arrived and walked all the way downtown through city gardens to our hotel, which was right at the Mississippi River next to the St. Louis Arch, the gateway to the west. After checking into our room, we went up the 192m high arch in a little tiny cubicle, spent hours in the museum, walked through old St.Louis and walked along the river...I almost felt like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn...there was just this atmosphere...somehow..

Back in the hotel, we had a little adventure as at 2.30 at night the alarm went on and we had to rush downstairs in hour pj's just to find out that someone pushed the alarm on purpose and for fun...After an hour we were finally be able to sleep again! It's interesting however to find out what people where for sleeping purposes....

Next day...after a nice breakfast, we visited a church close by and walked back to the Amtrak station to store our luggage. With the Metro we then went to Forest Park and as we had almost 20 something degrees outside we had a beautfiful chilaxing day in the park, close to the water and the St.Louis Zoo...

A wonderful experience....

St.Louis Arch...we were right on the top!

this was the little tiny cubicle!