St. Louis visiting

I have been to welcome the year of 2007 at Saint Louis, MO, for two nights and three days. You might be very surprised why I took so long time in this small town.

I indeed prefer to visit the historical place like the Gate way to Western territory. It fulfills me the needs to know about American history after President Jefferson bought this land from Napoleon.

At that time, this territory was unknown to any European countries and the United States.


Americans considered that the land purchasing of the fourth president was a stupid idea. The main goal of this project was to find the way to reach the ocean in the western coast. The President hired Lewis and Clark to explore this unknown land.

The disappeared for four years prior to coming back with the numerous reports of animals, rivers, etc. They finally were appointed the governors the new states! Unfortunately, one committed suicide!


I decided to go to celebrate the new year event this city because I like to learn about an American history. Additionally, I like to view the area around the Arch at the highest point of St. Louis city.




To do that, we have to pay around $10 for elavator to get into the highest of the Arch. It is around 600 feet high! From the summit point, I saw the old court house and others buildings showing in the fifth picture of this blog. On the other side of the Arch, I can see the liver and other sourounding buidings.








On the first day of my trip, I been to Washington University at Saint Louis. The first building I saw is so attractive that I cannot wait to taking a lot of pictures.

We been to many places during this trip. For example, we been to the Arch Gate way, Art Museum located in Forest Park.






We also went to the best Zoo in the United, and took around 3 hours to visit our old friends living in the Zoo!


We also have a chance to visit Thai Temple in St. Louis. It is coincidentally that the temple is very near to our hotel. We took only 10 minutes by car from our hotel to visit the monks.






We have no rice to share. Then, we donated some money to the temple instead. It is good time for us. The monk gave us the blessing and the charm!

We will visit this temple again if we have a chance!