The Gateway Arch

Brandon was over the craziness by about 3pm, which was good as we needed to head off to the Arch. We walked 20 min or so, to the kids dismay as their feet were killing them.

Towering at 630 feet, the stainless steel catenary curve was constructed between 1963 and 1965, serving as a symbol of the "Gateway to the West". It’s a tram car in the arch that takes you to the top and then can view the city from there. Due to the arch, the tram car is moved similar to both an escalator and a lift. The tram car is also very small with a max 5 people and hopefully no one is claustrophobic.

There was tons of information of the Louisiana purchase and the history of the expansion of the west as well as an area on how the arch was built.

We walked 20,000 steps as we made our way back to the car. Brandon just wanted to go back to the house and about 5 blocks away from the car Inara’s legs just stopped working. I think we pushed the kids to the limit.

That night we ordered in and watched USA lose against Turkey on the TV while at the same time we watched Australia drew against Paraguay on the laptop.Leggi altro