Day 7:
Leaving Keokuk, Iowa and driving down to St. Louis via Hannibal, Missouri, birthplace to Mark Twain.
We took an hour long trolley ride through the sites of Hannibal. Hannibal was also home to the Unsinkable Molly Brown {from the Titanic}.
Statue of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
Standing with the great Mark Twain atop a beautiful bluff overlooking the Mississippi.
Our final destination of our trip..St. Louis. Our hotel was right across the street from the arch, the gateway to the west.
Our first experience of St. Louis was a police chase. We were standing at the crosswalk waiting to cross the street into gateway park when all of a sudden a man comes running over the hill right towards us. Closely behind him was a female officer and another officer in a little cart. They ran right past us and just about 15 feet from us she caught him and tazed him to the ground. The boys thought this was awesome. Quickly after he was tazed, they handcuffed him and another squad car pulled up aside them and put him inside. This incident was all cleaned up within minutes. It was done so quickly that one stops to wonder how often they have to do such things??
A very hot and bug filled walk through the park!
I couldn't stop taking pictures of the arch. It was just magnificent to look at and every angle gave a different viewpoint.
The streets of St. Louis were crowded and crazy because just a block away, a Cardinals game was about to begin. We found a TGIF's, ate a little dinner then retired early to our hotel room to watch 'Soul Surfer'..which by the way was an incredible story.
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