by: Lee and Laurie Swanson - Adventure 17
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| Lee and Laurie in the dugout at Busch Stadium |
The bus picked us up
at 7:45 am, early for a lot of us. Drove
to Union Station where we picked up Judy, our guide for
the day. St Louis was founded in 1764. The
city of St Louis and 7 counties has a population of 2.5 million. In
1849 there was the GreatFire. After
that only bricks and stone could be used for construction. St Louis hosts
the second largest Mardi Gras celebration in the US. It is a very diverse community as there
are 75 ethnic groups here, the
latest from Bosnia.
We toured the Cathedral Basilica of St
Louis which was built in 1907. It is a very beautiful church with mosaics
composed of 41.5 million pieces of tiles. It holds over 2,000 people.
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| Cathedral Basilica of St Louis |
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| Byzantine Mosaics inside |
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| The Main Alter |
Next we drove by the Jefferson
Memorial Park. It
is one of the largest parks in the USA covering 1400 acres.
This area was the 1904 World's Fair. Introduced at
the world’s fair in 1904 were ice tea, the ice cream cone and hot dogs.
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| Jefferson Memorial Park |
Next we
drove to Union Station which was built in 1894 and had 32 tracks. Union
station is called the Gateway to
the West. This was our lunch stop. We went upstairs to see the
Grand Hall which was beautiful.
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| The Grand Hall |
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| The Grand Hall Stained Glass Window |
Next stop was Busch Stadium. It is the third stadium built
for the Cardinals at a cost of $365,000,000. Seating capacity is 47,000.
Our stadium guide was extremely knowledgeable in baseball, especially about the
Cardinals.
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| Busch Stadium view from above homeplate |
Next we toured Budweiser Brewery. We saw several Clydesdale horses. The stable was built in 1885. The brew house was built in 1891
and first used as a train depot. During
prohibition they produced a variety of soft drinks and bakers yeast to provide
an income.
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| Budweiser brewery |
Our guide Judy did a great job and
was very informative.
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| Waiting for the bus to take our weary bodies home |
It was a long day so everybody was tired
by the time we got back to the rv park around 6 pm.
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