Today started off with leaving Indianapolis and heading straight for St. Louis, Missouri. (I will be adding the pictures tomorrow, unfortunately my camera battery is dead at the moment. It will be charged tomorrow though!) We had to drive through Illinois to get to St. Louis. I have to say, the middle of Illinois has a lot of... well nothing. If you live in South Jersey and think there are too many farms, drive through Illinois. Your mind will change about 5 seconds after you are baffled by how big the sky is.
As we were driving, a large truck with tubes coming off of it decided to spray us with water as we were passing it. The recent weather has caused my car to have a lot of dried up salt all over the car.... so add sprayed water, and the result is crazy white streaks all over the car. (We eventually washed it off at a gas station.)
Coming up on St. Louis was amazing for the fact that the Arch is enormous. I had no idea it was as large as it was. Apparently it is the biggest man-made monument in the world. And get this, you can travel up to the top of the arch in a tram thing. Dan went up to the top, I was about to, but the damn thing is a capsule about 5x5 feet that takes you up in 4 minutes. I was not about to get in that thing. I do have some pretty awesome pictures of the arch though "Gateway to the West".
We then went to Imo's and had some official St. Louis style pizza. They make it with a special kind of provolone mix and super thin crust. It was good in its own kind of way, I have to say I'm still a fan of Jersey pizza. Though we haven't visited Chicago yet where I hear it is pretty good.
After eating Imo's we took a trip to the Anheuser Busch factory. I have quite a few pictures of the free tour as well. Basically, the place is huge, and at the end you get to sample beer that is only 40 minutes old. You can tell the difference immediately due to its freshness.
Tonight we are staying at James' place, a teacher in St. Louis. We made an awesome meatloaf for dinner with onions, carrots, and garlic. Very cool guy, we had a jam session in his spacious St. Louis city style apartment. (I played keyboard, Dan on bass, James on guitar, his friend on drums.) I'll also try to provide pictures of the house.
Tomorrow we will be heading to Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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