St. Louis!

 Hi Friends,

This past month my family and some friends of ours went on an epic vacation to St. Louis Missouri! We left at 7 the first day and drove the first 8 hours to durant MO and then drove the rest the next day. Some people despise driving but we take so many fun stops that it feels like a real part of the trip.

    Our main theme of stops this trip was: THE WORLDS LARGEST! So over the duration of our trip we saw the worlds largest peanut, fork, belt buckle, shoe string and pencil. Although my personal favorite was the fork! 

Our first real day in St. Louis consisted of our all time favorite attraction the city museum! The city museum is one of the hardest places to describe to someone because it is the largest indoor/outdoor playground made entirely out of junk! The entire place is filled ten stories worth of slides, tunnels, caves etc. There is even an entire roof portion with a ferris wheel and a school bus hanging on the side of the building. After six and a half hours of climbing we got some dinner at blueberry hill downtown.                           

Day two we headed to Meramac State Park for some swimming, hiking and of course going in caves! We went to two river spots and the second one was way better. It had a really strong current that pulled you all the way down if you laid on your back and of course a rope swing! That night when we got home we made homemade spaghetti..and let me tell you I feel like we are real Italians now!                                           

The third day we toured the town starting at Gateway Arch National Park! It was way taller than I expected! We started by doing a walk through of the museum they had and then rode to the top! It was the coolest thing I had ever done and you could see the whole city from the top! After we stopped at the Dred Scott Courthouse and on to the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Illinois, where we ran to the top of the giant mounds! Our legs were complete jello by the end but it was worth it to visit Illinois! Next we stopped at the St. Louis Zoo to see the polar bears....which by the way was the coolest zoo I had ever been to! Dinner and ice cream at the Soda Fountain almost completed our day but there was one more stop at the Novel Neighbor, A local Missouri bookstore. It was so cute and definitely worth the visit!    

Funniest Part of the trip: The second day on the road we stopped at a roadside attraction called Uranus Fudge Factory! It was the funniest place ever....with tons of hilarious signs and memorabilia. They really did have a fudge factory and it was delicious! It was definitely a great edition to the trip and a place only certain people would enjoy!

I hope you enjoy reading about Missouri as much as I loved visiting it!

Always Remember: "Sometimes you have to live on the wild side, have faith and trust that everything is going to be okay. "                 

                -Carly