Yes, I had been disappointed and discouraged that our trip -- and our energy and our enthusiasm -- had kind of fizzled in the last few days, but I am happy to report that we all redeemed ourselves on this, the last day of our vacation. Although we felt like blowing through St. Louis and making a mad dash for home, we rallied and did at least the Arch some serious justice. At the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (the National Park Service site that encompasses the Arch), we took in a film about Lewis and Clark, perused the Museum of Westward Expansion, earned Junior Ranger badges, rode to the top of the Arch AND took a Mississippi Riverboat cruise! Woot! it was the perfect bookend to a really amazing trip.
This morning, before leaving the Holiday Inn, I checked the weather forecast, and then reached for our sweatshirts, which had migrated to remote corners of our duffle bags. Keith scoffed at me. He scoffed! True, the high in St. Louis today was supposed to be in the 70s -- beautiful weather, and certainly not anything that warrants *sweatshirts *. But I thought that after three weeks of sweltering heat and humidity, 73 degrees might seem a tad on the chilly side. Really, we were fine; the weather in St. Louis was gorgeous this morning -- no sweatshirts required. But on the way home, we ran into some storms, and watched the temperature gauge in the car drop to 63. Sixty-three degrees, folks! When we stopped for dinner, we all wished we had those sweatshirts, which, thanks to Keith, remained stowed in a duffle-bag in the car-top carrier, out of reach. We also wished we were back in Austin.
It was still sprinkling and temps were in the low 60s when we pulled into our driveway later this evening.
Thank goodness Keith's buddies had taken it upon themselves to remind Keith NOT to pull into the garage with the car-top carrier still attached, as he is wont to do.
It was a fun trip, everyone. Thanks for tagging along!
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