Fun in St. Louis

We awoke to a cold morning in St. Louis and headed immediately to the St. Louis Gateway Arch.  We actually went to the arch twice that day.  Neither time did we get up to the top.  The first time, the lines were so long that we decided to go on to do other things.  The second time, the tickets were sold out.  I was disappointed, but we tried.  We did get a few good pictures.

Next we went to the St. Louis Science Center.  This is a place that is pretty cool.  It's completely hands-on.  We built catenary arches, watched optical illusions, learned about how the earth was formed and played with tornadoes.  We spent several hours here.  Here are a few pictures.

The center spans across a busy highway.  You can use  radar guns to see how fast people are going,
and also spy on them with binoculars in their cars.  :)

Jule watching a tornado form.

While in the Science Center, we watched two movies in the Omnimax Theatre.  The Omnimax is a theatre where the screen is in a dome that wraps from one side of the theatre to the other side.  It's hard to describe how wonderful it is.  Here's a picture that I found on the internet that gives a tiny example.

The most fun of the trip was yet to come.