The Arch

But now we need to back up to the beginning of the trip!  We flew into St. Louis, so we hung out there for a couple of days first before driving up to Nauvoo.

Our first day we went to the Gateway Arch!  It was pretty cool!

And it was almost 80 degrees, the warmest day of the trip by far!  We spent fully half our time at the Arch just messing around taking fun pictures.

I love this one of all of us!

One more of me and Whit, and then us in the tiny bubble things you ride in to the top of the Arch. It was fun, if mildly claustrophobic

The top was pretty fun too!

Here's the kids reinacting part of Lewis and Clark's journey:

kids at the top of the stairs under the arch, and view from inside the top.

me and kate at the top.

More fun pics.

Also we went down to the Mississippi and put our feet in, awesome!

The arch and the River. 

It was a cool bucket list day!