We drove into St. Louis yesterday night. We got there and basically went to bed. We’re staying in an AirBNB not far from the City Museum and the Aquarium.
We started our first day with a trip to Grant’s Farm. The first thing we saw were the Clydesdales. Then we took the tram tour. We got to feed baby goats a bottle of milk. We did two bottles between Linda, Annabelle and I. The goats drank the milk pretty quick. After that we hung around and Annabelle brushed the goats for a while. The next attraction was a building full of parakeets. The birds would land on us and some bit us.
Then we ate lunch. I had a brat with German potato salad. I thought it was pretty good for a tourist attraction. Budweiser gives everyone two free beers when they visit. So I had two Michelob Ultra NA beers. After lunch we saw the national historic attraction for Grant’s life. Grant was a general in the civil war. Later he was president. While he owned a slave he had an important role in ending slavery. He did set his slave free.
After Grant’s Farm we drove through the Lone Elk Park. We chose to drive through rather than doing a hike. We did drive everywhere we possibly could. We saw a couple lone whitetail deer. We also saw several elk. A couple times we saw two elk together and another time we saw a big group, probably six or eight of them. A lot of raccoons greet the cars as they drive through. People must be feeding them. There were supposedly bison in the park. Unfortunately we did not see any.
We ate Chinese takeout from Corner 17. Linda actually went to this restaurant when she was in town for a work trip. After dinner we went to see the Cardinals game. We got a picture with the mascot. Annabelle spent time climbing through the play structure in the children’s area. Unfortunately that was the only free kid’s attraction. You could also pay to throw pitches. They had an arcade too, but we didn’t go there to play those games.
The Cardinals won their game which was nice to see. After that, we came home and called it a night.