Meet Us in St. Louis!

Did you know: The St. Louis Arch is comprised of, simply put, stacks of equilateral triangles ranging from 54 feet at the base to 17 feet (each side) at the top.

The Arch, built to commemorate the great Thomas Jefferson in a memorial expansion project, is truly breathtaking. The best view of the Arch is if you lie down in the grassy explanade underneath the Arch and stare up.

Under the actual ground level of the Arch area is another "world" filled with diaramas and life-size replicas of life in the pioneer times.

8 circular pods make up a tram which takes passengers up to the top of the Arch, which although short and uneventful, is kind of an opportunity no visitor can pass up. Neither did we.

We waited in the ticket sales line for 10 minutes to pay $30 for the 4 of us to wait another 90 minutes to get in another queue to wait another 20 minutes to board a pod which elevated us 600 feet northward.

When the ride was over, the pod's doors opened and we walked up a flight of stairs to the actual top arc of the Arch. The 30-step walk from end to end led us to another line to board the pods so we can ride down the Arch and back to the lobby of the museum.

Like any attraction, the actual ride was not very memorable. The 12 adjacent 1'x3' viewing windows does not make it easy to see the view of the city below. However, the memories were made during the wait, as we wandered through the exhibit, and waiting in another 20-minute line to buy bread and sausage slices to silence our grumbling tummies. Making Jonah Dogs and Micah Rolls with the bread and meat, and seeing Johnny make up yet another Baseball Trivia game to entertain the boys is what has made this price tag...priceless.