Day Three in a Nutshell

 After our visit to Starbucks this morning, we went over to a park nearby to see the gorgeous skyline of Chicago. We sat in the park, wrote some postcards, and then headed into the free park in the area. Since we wanted to get to St. Louis before the very end of the day, we didn't have a lot of time in the zoo, so we cut it down to our favorite animals. Of course, we saw the winter animals. We went into see the penguins and the polar bear. (naturally, all we thought when we saw the polar bear was the classic coca-cola commercials) We walked back to our car to head out of the city. Have no fear, Elyse still loves it.

Repping the Blue Knights and the super tourists. For the win. :)

Best Video Ever - the feet of a duck or something underwater... 

and they needed to go to the double story outhouse! 

Next up was our trip to the outhouse (which got a post of its own!) and then onto the World's Largest Ketchup Bottle. It was a decent size, but difficult to be touristy with. It was in right next to a main road through Collinsville, IL, and there was construction in the area. So, we did a few drive bys of the tower to get good pictures before moving onto St. Louis.

Finally, our last big stop of the day was St. Louis. We didn't have a lot of time, so we basically went and saw the arch. Elyse was super scared of it before we even went inside. (she doesn't like that the top doesn't have anything underneath it) I kind of forced her to go up to the top. We didn't realize that we would have to go into a little capsule to get up there. We video taped our way up because Elyse was freaking out that we were in a little capsule and I was somewhat concerned because I wasn't expecting to go into such a small space. Either way, we made it up there just fine! Elyse didn't hate me as much when we saw the view from the top of the arch.

I'm super strong. It totally moved.

a blurry view from the top!

Unfortunately, videos are still slow. Either way, we drove a couple of hours past St. Louis on the way towards our next destination to get some rest for the night. G'night all, its time for us to sleeeepp!