Started the day flying down the highway to make it here in time (luckily everytime a cop was around I was boxed in by cars frustratingly going the speed limit)
Then I headed downtown to visit Gateway Arch. I bought my ticket (ticket number 1) to go to the top and then browsed the musuem where I saw real life catholic nuns for the first time and then waited and waited and waited some more for my 2:15 ride to the top (which actually meant we got on the tram at 3, I wish they had told me that, I had places to be and I was hungery and therefore cranky!) Picture time.
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| I finally got my tram ticket!! (ticket number 2) Tram 3 with a lovely couple from England (now living in Phelidelphia) and another couple of which the wife rode with her eyes closed because she was clausterphobic and those trams are TINY. |
The Trams are really cool, I didn't get a picture though. They were designed in 2 weeks by a college drop out which I think is awesome! They're circular and as they go up the arch it rotates at intervals so you don't go unside down.
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| I made it to the top! |
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| The riverboat looked like a bath toy. |
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| The first bridge to use the cantilevered arch. |
After the arch I went on my merry way to Nauvoo, the only hiccup was while I was jamming out to Phatom of the Opera, not exactly paying attention to my speed, I got another ticket (my third for the day) and not one I wanted. But on a happy note speeding tickets in Missouri are half the price of tickets in Texas!
I love this view!
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