meet us in st. louis…
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I have to say that St. Louis has a pretty cool landmark in this huge Arch. When we drove through at night the lights of the city with the Arch hovering over everything was beautiful. The park is facing the river on one side and the city on the other and at this time of year we had the place to ourselves, nice for those few photos I could get before the camera went kaput. You can get a true perspective of just how big it is looking at how tiny we are in the photo below…
Ok. Line us up and call us crazy but do you see how tiny (and how few) these windows are? You have to ride in almost total darkness (except for the small neon glow of the tube lighting within the trunk gondola) for a looonggg ride to the top, at which time you get to peek out the tiny window of the gondola out the tiny windows on the arch. Hmmmm. Let’s think about that. Yeah, no. No thank you. It was unanimous.
And not only that, they seat FIVE people in this tiny thing.
With just two of us inside it definitely didn’t feel roomy enough for 3 more, one yes, three no.
Sean and his mom Nanc.. our whole reason for visiting this fair city…
*thanks* for being tour guide Nanc..our visit was just perfect!
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bummer you skipped the ride up — you actually exit the car at the top (like an elevator) and get to walk around what seems like a surprisingly large viewing room where the windows are. You can feel the arch swaying a little (by design) in the wind. Definitely worth the time.
oooh! so good to know.. we didn’t see that you got to do that, although i still think that ride might not be for the faint of heart when it comes to being a bit claustrophobic, but that definitely makes the ride much more worth it, so glad you told us (; and the gift shop/museum/etc. that are in the bottom are really cool too and i forgot to mention.. thanks for commenting!
Very cool that you got to visit the Arch! I couldn’t go in that thing. After getting an MRI, I found that small, confined spaces really freak me out. It would be cool at the top, though!
molly.. i don’t feel like i have a problem with small spaces but then when i saw that “cart” and the super long ride up and back down i think i realized maybe i’m not so good with all small spaces haha!!! but even without the ride, it is so cool in person! (;
Love the last picture! BEAUTIFUL!