Our Fourth of July was a blast from the past! Our friends from Ohio drove out to St. Louis to visit us for the Fourth and see the firework show down by the Arch. We used my hotel discount to stay downtown and walked down to the Arch from there.
Starting around 3:30 we all decided to buy tickets to ride to the top of the Arch, which was a first for all of us, and was too cool! The St. Louis Arch is 630 feet tall as it is also 630 wide. The Arch is the “Gateway to promised lands” St. Louis was a breaking point or pit-stop before moving on closer to the West coast and making it to California to search for gold and fortune. People were migrating from the East coast in wagons and on horses to the West coast. Missouri marks the Midwest, and the Gateway Arch is like a giant doorway welcoming people across to the other side of the Mississippi River.
We all rode up to the top of the arch in these little, egg-shaped, pods with 5 seats in each. The egg-shaped pods reminded me of the Mork and Mindy TV Show, where Robin Williams’s character lands in a similar egg-shaped pod. We got to the top of the Arch; there are little, rectangular viewing windows to look out on the cities horizon and to the river side sky line. The views were beautiful. We even watched the helicopter rides land on the small concrete landing spot down by the river. I also took a photo of the Ariel view of the Bush Stadium, for the Cardinals.
After we explored the Arch we headed over to the festivities and bought some hot dogs with horse radish and a coke, totaling $6. Over priced vendor foods! Later we each had a $2 Snow cone, I wanted to get 3 flavors but it would cost an additional dollar!!! So I stuck to 2 flavors…Lime and Orange. Everyone else ate the solid red or solid blue flavors! The red and blue are what I call the “safe flavors” and not wanting to venture out.
We settled down into the crowd on the cement steps below the arch just before the free concert was about to start. Cindy Lauper was the guest singer, FREE! I might add. She sang her usual 80’s hit songs and some new songs as well. I tried taking a clear photo of her on stage, and also video taped her singing “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”
Cindy has short, lavender, hair and tiny as ever. 
Here is a photo of Carly's oldest daughter, Amber and I during the fireworks show. She has pretty, long hair to play with and braid while rocking out to Cindy Lauper. I had a fun time hang out with her and the kids. I can't wait to have kids of our own soon.
After the free concert of Cindy Lauper the firework show started up over the river. The fireworks reflected in the water beautifully. Andrew and I were watching the firework show and enjoying every moment of it. 
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