St. Louis and Kansas City

23-25 July 2022

St Louis temple
The temple site is totally surrounded by Missouri Baptist University!
Grant historical site…the tour of the house was really cool
He and his wife are so short!
I went to Prison Brews in Jefferson City for lunch…yummy eats in a strange place 🙂
Missouri State Capitol
I didn’t stay long…there was a whole string of picketing trucks and cars circling the place
Marceline MO -Walt Disney’s hometown
Loved the Disney hometown museum!
The Main Street clock that the one at Disneyland is based on
A piece of the Dreaming Tree where Walt didn’t hours as a child
Replicas of early Disneyland
Ripley Park is where Walt’s mini autopia was supposed to be…and maybe will be someday
Walt always loved trains
Refreshment Corner is based on this place
Main Street USA at Disneyland was inspired by this one
Mural on the elementary school wall
The farmhouse
Dreaming tree sapling
A replica of Walt’s barn at his studio in California, on the site of his childhood farm
You can write a note on the barn
Here is mine 🙂
Union Station in KC is so beautiful!
Awesome fountain at Mill Creek Park
Gas is so much cheaper in MO
Truman presidential library
Truman’s house
National WWI monument
The view of Kansas City from the monument
After enjoying the WWI museum (awesome!) I took a lunch break at Jack Stack BBQ.
The most incredible blackberry lemonade and blackberry BBQ salmon
Spent a few minutes at the Money Museum
St. Louis temple
Hiked around the Parkville Nature Sanctuary
The waterfall was shockingly low 😦
I did pretty much ruin my boots. I can’t help getting into things. Ha!
Dinner at smokebox bbq cafe. Then I caught my flight back to Utah