Day 2
Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 10:08PM 
On the second day, there was more driving. ;) 647 more miles and time in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia. Whew. (And, yes, we crossed into yet another time zone. Ugh. We're telling ourselves that at least we'll gain time on the return trip, lol.)
Before all that, though, we stopped at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. It was, in Noah's words, worth the driving.
(Ha!!! Proud Project Pre-Thirteen moment! Given that Noah was the strongest voice of opposition to making this trip by car, we feel vindicated, lol.)
Here are some pictures...(trying to learn how to add them from my phone, so I'll apologize if they end up all weird).
In any case...we were quite impressed. The stainless steel shone and was remarkable in scale. We rushed through the underground museum that we hadn't known was there. We rode the tiny elevators up the north leg to the observation area (where boys busied themselves taking photos out the windows)...and we rode the tiny elevators back down the south leg. (The elevators were really small...the five of us took up a single one. If you're claustrophobic, you probably won't appreciate them.)
We then ventured over to see the Mississippi River (which was officially flooding), where I had to caution the younger two to not fall in since they obviously had to touch it, lol. And we took more pictures...running here and there and taking advantage of the precious moments out of the van. ;)
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Happy Mother's Day, Amanda!