The Gateway Arch Also known as the Jefferson national Expansion Memorial. This is like the monument of St. Louis. Construction was completed in 1965 and it was opened to public in 1967. This is to commemorate St. Louis' role in the westward expansion (towards Los Angeles, San Francisco etc...) of the United States between 1803 and 1890. USA sort of started from the East (which is where New York is).




There's Dad and Faith leaning their heads backwards to see the top of the Arch. It is 630 feet, which is like VERY high! There are trams that will take you all the way up for a bird's eye view of the area, but as you can see, it's very cloudy so we decided not to go up. There are also museums around the place (old Courthouse and the Museum of Westward Expansion). Took some time to walk around. We wanted to take a boat ride down the Mississippi River that day but anyway, it does not operate during the winter season = (


Yes. That's a little family photo which we took. Try to figure out who is who. Heh.




That day, we actually went past the Arch a few times of the day. It really looks magnificant!  ¶ 12/22/2006 01:17:00 AM