Today we went to the St. Louis Zoo after breakfast at the AirBNB. Luckily we found street parking within a reasonable walk. The zoo here is impressive, especially because it’s free. We only planned to spend a couple hours there. So we did not see everything. We saw two different parts of the zoo. One was River’s Edge with Asian elephants, hippos and hyenas. We were very impressed by the elephant exhibits. The other part we saw was The Wild which had apes, polar bears, grizzly bears and penguins. While we were at the zoo we also happened upon a stingray touch tank. Annabelle and I went inside and Belle got to feed a stingray.
After the zoo, we went back to the AirBNB to let Buster out. Then we drove to the St. Louis Aquarium at Union Station. The aquarium had a variety of exhibits which were all pretty solid. It’s a lot smaller the the Shedd in Chicago. One part that punched above it’s weight was the area with touch tanks. They had the typical star fish, stingrays and such. But they also had a tank where you could touch jellyfish. Linda and I also had fun pointing out the fish we saw scuba diving to Annabelle. Annabelle and Linda fed stingrays here too. It was cheaper to feed them at the aquarium than at the zoo.
Our next stop was Gateway Arch. We arrived just in time to get Annnabelle’s passport book stamped as the gift shop closed. We walked through the museum but did not have much time to take in the exhibits before close. I was glad we got to see the place when we did. On our way out we saw another variety of stamps and added another to Belle’s passport book. We went outside and walked around the arch. We went down to the river to see the view from the bottom of the steps.
For dinner we went to Kampai for sushi. Annabelle likes sushi a lot. But she only wanted to eat the California roll. Linda and I had a variety of sushi. We tried their Kampai special roll which had lobster in it. The food was good. Annabelle got to sit next to a sushi roll squishmellow. While she enjoyed her time there she was disappointed she couldn’t take the squishmellow home with her.