Last night away from home!!

Ok, I am a little excited to be going home. I absolutely loved travelling and seeing all the sites, but I am super- excited to be going home!

We drove 450 miles yesterday.  We went from Carter Caves Campground east of Lexington, Kentucky until St. Louis, Missouri.  We got on the road at 11 am and pulled into St. Louis around 7:30 pm!!

Luckily, we knew of a campground in downtown St. Louis that was close to the arch.  It was nothing but a cemented city block, but it served our purposes.  It had no picnic tables or no fire rings, but it had electricity and water and it was close to everything. It was really weird to be camping in a big city!

We got up this morning and since we had switched back to the central time zone yesterday, we were all awake by 8 am! (BTW Megan was asleep by 10:30 last night- she was usually up til 11:30 or so when we were in the eastern time zone)

We were told to get to the arch in the morning before the tour buses showed up and we were there by 9:15.  We went through the museum, saw the movie, and went to the top of the arch.  We were on our way back to our camper by 11:30.  We were so glad we went in the morning- the line was super-long when we left!!

When we pulled out of the parking garage, Matt went the wrong way on the interstate and we ended back up in Illinois.  We had taken the GPS out of the truck so it wouldn't get stolen by the arch, but we weren't really sure of which way to go!  We ended up turning around and getting back to St. Louis. But we did go by a racetrack, which Christian thought was pretty neat!

We got back to our camper, ate lunch, and packed up.  By 1 pm, we were on the road!  It was 169 to our next destination- Arrow Rock Campground.  This campground is about 100 miles east of Kansas City.  We had stayed at Arrow Rock before, it was about 5-6 years ago on one of our trips to St. Louis with old camper.  It is a great park and has an historical town next to it.  Matt has always wanted to come back.

After stopping to get gas a couple of times, a stop to turn a movie back into Redbox and get a few groceries at Walmart, and a stop at OReilly's to see why the check engine light was on in the truck, we pulled into Arrow Rock Campground about 5 pm.

We found a nice open spot and got set up.  The kids got the sand toys out right because there are a bunch of rocks, acorns, and a cob of corn by our site.  They haven't gotten the sand toys out in a long time! I think maybe since Indiana Dunes State park (our 2nd campground of the trip.)

We are going to grill tonight and make smores. I am not sure if we are going to go into the historical town or not sometime.

It is 298 miles home tomorrow!  I can't wait!!