So we continue. It's day 3. We have another amazing breakfast prepared by our pal Rick and head out for our final adventure to explore the most famous monument of all (in the city of Saint Louis..not the world). The ARCH. I had little previous knowledge of what was inside this monster of a structure. I drove past it once in college on the freeway with some pals on the way to a Music Festival in Tennessee, but that's about it. We, at that time, lovingly referred to it as 'The Freakin' Arch'....we were tired and cranky I think.
Let me tell you that the arch is a pretty amazing structure to behold...unless you are one who feels claustrophobic in small spaces. In that case, you should NEVER do this.
We got our tickets and were first in line for the 11:10am ride. We got our tram capsule cards (we called them time capsule cards instead, because you kind of feel like you are taking a trip back to the 1960's):
Then we were escorted down a concrete staircase (are we heading to a bomb shelter???) to a row of 8 little metal doors. Our pod was lucky number 7:
The metal door raised up and inside was the capsule...so tiny! For real? Yep, climb on in...I'm sure it will be fine:
It takes 4 minutes to reach the top and kind of sways as the arch bends. At the top is a little room (arch shaped because it's the top of the arch) with windows to look out at the world:
It's quite high:
Not too scary, but I did have a moment of internal panic as we waited for the 'Time Capsule' to return to bring us down:
We are, like, stuck up here until the little capsule returns to take us safely down (which takes 3 minutes if you wanted another fun factoid). What if it forgets to come get us? It came. It was all ok. We made it safely down. Super cool experience:
We only had a handful of hours left before it was time to head home so decided to spend it in 'The Loop'...it's where the cool college kids hang out. But first we stopped for some ice cream at Ted Drewes. Multiple people told us we HAD to go there, so we did. It was tasty:
Now the Loop. Lots of cute shops. I bought this:
And we made another perfect decision for lunch:
Black bean burgers, shoestring fries, ginger beer and SKEEBALL:
We totally did not do awesome but it was fun:
Ok, at this point it was probably 2pm and we had seen every store, walked up and down 'The Loop' and were getting a little weary in the legs. But our flight didn't leave for another 5.5 hours....so we went to a mall:)
More walking...some window shopping...and then we couldn't deny the obvious any longer. We had done ALL THE THINGS there are to do in a weekend getaway. And it was wonderful.
And we were exhausted. Was it lame to head to the airport and sit for 3.5 hours until our flight took off? Maybe. But that's just what we did. Also, we had snacks and played cards (Arch cards with fun facts on them that we bought at the airport for our friend D who was kind enough to pick us up from the airport later that evening...but we were bored so tried them out for her):
Time to head home:
What a trip! Short and sweet and perfect in every way. We plan to take more trips in the future...to where, we do not know. But the plan is to pick a city we have never been to and see where the wind takes us. Until next time ❤️!
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