St. Louis, Missouri

by Lauren

After our amazing interviews at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, Missouri, the three of us headed across the state to St. Louis where we hoped to have our picture taken with the St. Louis Arch. But first, we took important Roadtrip Nation hat photos.

Sarah:

Nicole:

Me:

We drove across the state on a lot of those endless roads that Nicole talked about in her las post, and finally made it to St. Louis, Missouri to see the Arch:

We arrived in the city, found a parking spot, and started wandering (because that's what the What Now Wanderers do best). We first walked down to the Mississippi River, which I have never seen before! It was really big and very... dirty-looking. It did have a lot of cool ships on it though, including this one which looks like it came straight out of a Mark Twain novel:

Next stop was the St. Louis Arch, where we asked someone to take our picture standing under it. Apparently the idea of having the arch with us in the picture was way too confusing, so this is what we ended up with (just use your imagination and picture an arch above us):

Sarah and Nicole making their own arches:

As we wandered around the city looking for a good place to stop for dinner, we found ourselves in the middle of Rocktoberfest, which on that particular day was featuring an 80s hair band:

We head-banged a little at the concert (no really, we did) and then headed over to Jake's Steaks, an awesome restaurant in Old St. Louis:

After an enormous meal (there was enough food for at least 8 people) we piled back into the car and headed in the general direction of Tennessee.

Goodbye St. Louis!

Little did we know that we'd find ourselves that night in a town called Metropolis, Illinois - home of Superman! But that's a story for another day....