Friday July 29 - Meet Me In St Louie - Louie!

Our goal for today was to get up and make it to Indianapolis.  Cheri mentioned that she'd like to stop in St. Louis and visit the Gateway Arch so I looked in to it.  Unfortunately is seems the Arch area is under some renovation and while you can still visit the Arch you need to purchase timed tickets well in advance.  Bummer for us....

But wait...there's more.  Instead of the Arch we visited and toured that other great American landmark...The St. Louis Anheuser-Busch Brewery!!  It was worth the stop.  We enjoyed a tour, saw the Clydesdale horses, and got samples of beer.   We also had lunch in the Biergarten!  It was fun!

This is the original building.  It's cool!

These two are youngsters...but they were still big!

Our samples came in these fancy plastic cups.

It's hard to believe they kept these buildings looking like this.  The lights are from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Lunch with free beer.  A-B makes Goose Island??  Hrumph!!

Another one down!

Holy giant cross, Batman!

An Ohio neighbor and our third state today.

We lost an hour due to the time change (our last!), and we lost some time due to roadwork/accident/traffic jam but we made it to Plainfield/Indianapolis at a bit after 7:30.  We walked over to a place called The Black Swan Brewpub and had a light dinner and a couple of beers.