Trip in St. Louis part one

    I can't believe that I had another trip out of town again since the last time I went to Chicago is only about two weeks ago. This time, it's St. Louis in Missouri, the second-most nearest big city to UIUC. Along with me are I-Hong the driver, Grace, I-Ging and Pin-Shin.

    It took about three hours to get St. Louis. The first place we visited is fast fried chicken restaurant Lee's.

    After finishing our lunch, we went to the Budwiser Brewery.

    A brewery is the place where beer is made commercially. We first looked around the exhibition and the souvenir store. Surprisingly, there is a R.O.C. flag pattern, among about fifteen nations, showed on a big board hung from the ceilings in the exhibition hall. After that, we joined the tour hold by the brewery. We visited many facilities belonged to this brewery like the stable and fermenting room. The reason here is a stable with several Dalmatian dogs and Clydesdale horses kept inside is because that it's a symbol of early career of Budwiser.

A Dalmatian and two drivers on a carriage

    The tour is composed mostly of aged couples. They asked many questions in the ending of the tour like hard-working students. I think that's cute.

    After the tour, there is free beer for every visitor. Beer is not only free but also unlimited. The taste is not bad although it's common beer you can bought in Walmart. Grace got so blushed after drinking only half cup of beer. The others seemed to be OK. For me, I drank one cup,which is obviously not enough.

    Anyway, we continued our trip, not drunkly, to the most famous landmark in St. Louis, the Arch.

The Arch and skyline of St. Louis
(photo from www.orgsites.com/mo/stlchristianhomesports/)

    This arch is really spectacular. In some way, it looks so unreal.We took cable car inside the arch to the top of it to enjoy the view. Looking to the west, it's downtown St. Louis. To the east, it's great Mississippi River. The Arch itself symbolize the city as a bridge across Mississippi River as well as a bridge for Americans starting their development in the mid-west.

Downtown St. Louis