St. Louis Gateway Arch

St. Louis Arch, originally uploaded by Michael Shattuck.

This weekend has been pretty exciting. Last night we got to spend some time with some friends of ours who are also missionaries in Poznan as well as with our friends, the Whites. They're the folks that adopted two kiddos and went through everything at the end alongside us. It's been great catching up and just hanging out a bit...great both for us and for the kids.

We decided to take advantage of the great weather today and head down to St. Louis' famed Gateway Arch. November 17 and the weather was UN-BE-LIEVABLE! Seriously gorgeous. We were all excited to take the kids up to the top for the first time. Got there and no dice...the elevators were out. Walk up? No thanks.

Instead of going in to the westward expansion museum with everyone, I decided to stay "topside" and wander around taking pics. This is one of them. Beautiful wasn't it? It was nice having that bit of time by myself, focusing only on taking pictures. Nothing more. No other thoughts. And the others had a good time checking everything the museum had to offer.

I'm going to close here. I'll add some stuff about my dad soon. Just want to leave it with this for today. I'm busy tomorrow, driving to Benton, MO to speak in the morning and then speaking here in Ellisville in the evening. I'm looking forward to it but I know I'll be beat down this time tomorrow night.

Have a great rest of the weekend!