Saturday morning, we checked out of our hotel room and loaded everything back in the van and got hooked up. Apparently, our trailer left a dent in the parking lot. Not sure what that was about. 
We had breakfast at Starbucks and then drove to our campground just outside of St. Louis, in Granite City, Illinois. We got things set up just as a storm was rolling in. We decided to hope that the storm had already been through St. Louis, so we headed into the city. The drive there was a little sketchy and we had to pull over a couple of times because it was raining so hard we couldn't see.
But, when we got there, it seemed to be done raining and we were able to park and do some sight seeing. We went to visit the Arch.
We weren't able to go up in it because it was sold out for the day, but we went downstairs to check out the free museum. It was really awesome. Lots of interesting displays and information about the history of the area. Layla did some conditioning and Micah paddled a canoe and got run over by a train.
At that point, we decided to leave because we were pretty hungry. When we got upstairs, the lobby was packed and nobody was able to leave because of another storm.
We were under a severe thunderstorm warning, so we were stuck there for about another 45 minutes, starving and freezing because of the air conditioning. We finally were able to leave and we went to Walmart to buy some stuff for dinner. When we got back to our campground, we discovered that the whole place was filled with huge puddles from all the rain and the corners of both of the beds in our trailers were very wet. It continued to rain off and on all evening, and by the time we wanted to go to bed, we decided to all pile in the van and drive to the bathrooms to brush our teeth.License plate stats: STILL 48 states and 6 provinces. States visited: 15.
We had breakfast at Starbucks and then drove to our campground just outside of St. Louis, in Granite City, Illinois. We got things set up just as a storm was rolling in. We decided to hope that the storm had already been through St. Louis, so we headed into the city. The drive there was a little sketchy and we had to pull over a couple of times because it was raining so hard we couldn't see.
But, when we got there, it seemed to be done raining and we were able to park and do some sight seeing. We went to visit the Arch.
We weren't able to go up in it because it was sold out for the day, but we went downstairs to check out the free museum. It was really awesome. Lots of interesting displays and information about the history of the area. Layla did some conditioning and Micah paddled a canoe and got run over by a train.
At that point, we decided to leave because we were pretty hungry. When we got upstairs, the lobby was packed and nobody was able to leave because of another storm.
We were under a severe thunderstorm warning, so we were stuck there for about another 45 minutes, starving and freezing because of the air conditioning. We finally were able to leave and we went to Walmart to buy some stuff for dinner. When we got back to our campground, we discovered that the whole place was filled with huge puddles from all the rain and the corners of both of the beds in our trailers were very wet. It continued to rain off and on all evening, and by the time we wanted to go to bed, we decided to all pile in the van and drive to the bathrooms to brush our teeth.License plate stats: STILL 48 states and 6 provinces. States visited: 15.
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