The Arch and Blueberry Hill

We had breakfast at the hotel and then we headed off to downtown St Louis to go to the Arch.  We had tickets to go up this time.  We found a close parking structure and then headed out.  Stopped at the court house first.

After confirming our tickets we headed off to the north tower to get the Top of the Arch Tram.  

We had a 10 am ticket and we got in line at 9:50 am.  The whole process took about 45 minutes.  Most of that was waiting for our tram.  

There were 5 seats in each car.  There were 2 other people in the car with us.  No real feeling of height but it might be a little claustrophobic.  Only in there 4 minutes going up and 3 minutes coming down.  Once we were at the top there were 16 skinny windows on each side.  They limit the number of people going up so that it did not feel crowded at the top.

630 feet up.

Cool to see the shadow of the arch.

When we were ready we headed down.  

After we got down we watched a very impressive movie of how the arch was built.  I had not realized that it opened the year before I started at Blackburn.  At the time I thought it had always been there.

The flags were at half mast due to 9/11.

Then we went back to the car and changed to another parking structure.  We went to the Loop.  First stop was lunch at Blueberry Hill.  What a quirky place but fabulous cheeseburgers.  

There is a hallway that has the owner, Joe Edwards, with a variety of celebrities.  He started the St Louis Walk of Fame.  

Chuck Berry

The criteria is that the person needed to have been born or spent formative years in St Louis and made a cultural contribution to USA.  There are currently 146 stars.  

It would be a cool street to dink around in,  We looked at all the stars and then decided that it was time to head back to the hotel.  

After a little rest break we headed out to pick up Bonnie to take her to dinner.  We went to Applebees.  She ended out treating us.

I had a delicious bourbon shrimp and chicken and potato dish.

When we took Bonnie back we stayed awhile to visit.  That was nice.