23rd & 24th June

Nothing much to report for these two days.,

Yesterday (Tuesday) was again unbearably hot so we took the ‘Metro’ to an out of town shopping mall - The Galleria - and spent until around 3pm mooching around in the comfort of an air conditioned environment. We had lunch there then returned to the city on the metro and took a bus to The City Museum. Quote: “no visit to St Louis is complete without a visit to The City Museum” . Er - oh yes it is if you do not have children - it seemed to us like a huge exploratory indoor playground, fine for kids but not for two hot and tired 60+ ladies! We paid our $12 each and wished we hadn’t bothered. Aimee, Emma and the Kennaway twins would have loved it as all the children there seemed to be having a great time discovering lots of things and climbing on all sorts of different equipment.
http://www.citymuseum.org/about.html

By the end of our (short) visit there it was so hot and humid and we were so tired that we took a cab back to the hotel and spent the evening recovering and taking it easy in our room

Today (Wednesday) we caught the 7.55am train from St Louis to Chicago. We arrived around 1.30pm and after a snack lunch at the station food court we took a cab to our hotel - the Travelodge Downtown. And ‘downtown’ it really is, close to Lake Michigan and seems to be right in the hub of things. We have a huge room, well almost 2 rooms really with archway between, together with big bathroom and kitchenette. We both feel we deserve this space after our not too good hotel in St Louis.

We intend to just hang around here for the rest of the day to restore our energy levels before two days of sightseeing in this great city on Thursday and Friday.

Oh yes, the local paper reported temperatures in St Louis of ‘upper 90’s or over 105 with the humidity calculated in’ and are 10-15 degrees above average.