St Louis

To ze English peoople, hello!

After Thanksgiving we went to St. Louis, Missouri.  To see St Louis on a map of the United States, click here. (You might have to zoom out to see where it is in relation to Indiana).

We stayed in a hotel called Drury Inn. The hotel had a swimming pool. The pool was really cold, but they had a spa too.

The Gateway Arch in St Louis is ENORMOUS!

Here, see for yourself!

Big is it not? Inside it you can...

1. Go to museums (click here to read more)

2. Take a tram to the top (click here to read more)

Outside you can...

3. Go to the Mississippi river

4. Take a Helicopter tour

5. Take a boat tour

Out of all these 5 things we did... two. We went to a museum called the Museum of Westward Expansion where we found out about the pioneers and how they travelled west.  And we saw the Mississippi. We went back 2 times, to try to go up the arch, but eventually we just gave up as the queues were too long. 

Us by the Mississippi

Us in the museum

Hi. When we got to St Louis, we went to the City Museum - a museum that was like a play park. There was a place where you could run around and be a kid. What we did was, me and Maddie went and played in a section and Mum and Dad followed us. Cool, huh?

My favourite part was the caves. It had a really low ceiling. There was a huge whale with long steep slides.

I also liked the part where there were skateboarding ramps that you could run up and slide down. One had a wall of death.

Outside there were loads of slides and a ball pit. There was a school bus sticking out from the roof and a fire engine coming out through the wall. The city museum was a really fun place.

Near St. Louis there is a Native American city called Cahokia. Cahokia was bigger than London in 1250 A.D.! What’s the point in going there? Surely there is none of it left? There’s a whole lot left of Cahokia because is built of earthen mounds! There are burial mounds (circular), mounds that would have had houses or castles on them (flat-top) and even mounds that mark boundaries (triangular prism-ish)!

Can you see St Louis in the background?

Cahokia is pretty amazing, although it took them about 300 years to build the biggest one, the KING’S mound, or as it’s known today Monk’s mound. (Which is the only mound you can climb).

They had some pretty neat ideas too. Such as: ‘Let’s not have a war, let’s have a game of lacrosse (which they invented!), whoever wins gets to ___________'.

After we went to Cahokia and swimming we went to an Italian restaurant. Proper Italian restaurants have more than three courses so I was really full at the end! Dad got lost on the way there and ended up in the middle of a park. I ate spaghetti, Maddie had pizza. It was yummy.

On our last morning in St Louis we went to Steinberg skating rink. It was so fun. At the end, I could go REALLY fast. Maddie, on the other hand had her own way of skating. (Falling over!) Yeah whatever! (Actually I was loads better than Ellen.) I learned that to go you have to put one skate forward and out. Maddie didn’t listen. Grr! Mum also fell on her bottom and hit her head.