Exploring

One Monday we had planned on going to the botanical gardens. We arrived to find pure madness as thousands of people were attending the Japanese Festival at the gardens. We decided to brave it anyway and piled out of the car while Jared went to park, only to find out it cost twice as much as normal. No thanks! We flagged Jared down, piled back in, and he started driving towards downtown while we decided what to do instead. We ended up stopping at Union Station. I had never been and wondered what it was. It reminded me a lot of Tower City with the mall portion. It did however have a neat "pond" outside you could paddleboat on. Several restaurants had patios that overlooked the water. It would be a neat setting for a dinner date and I made sure Jared knew that. We did find a neat display that told the history of union station. It used to be the railroad station in town. The display also had some telegrams from WWII, some Titanic memorablia and other neat items.

Messing around with some photo ops in Union Station

After Union Station we headed to the Arch. We had done the museum under the arch before but Katy and I were the only ones who had gone up. We convinced Jared, and up we went.

We actually all squeezed in one of these pods for the ride to the top. Jared and Mom were just absent for the picture


Not sure what these people were trying to tell us with their "XA"

The western view

The Mississippi

The eatern view of Illinois

On the way home we stopped at............bet you can't guess..............