Meet me in St. Louis

Wow, I've been sort of bad at this whole blogging thing lately. I promise to stay on top of it from here on out.

This past Sunday, was our first wedding anniversary. To celebrate we took a long weekend and traveled to St. Louis, MO. Why St. Louis? To cross Missouri off of our list of course!

Last summer we decided that we would vacation in all 50 of the United States. We have a couple rules that have to be followed in order to cross a state off our list.

• We must spend at least 2 nights in the state 
• We have to do at least 1 really "touristy" thing
• Once we reach our destination, we must try not eat anywhere that we would normally be able to

Our trip to St. Louis was a success! We took the Amtrak there and back, which was so nice because we usually bicker in the car (I'll take the blame for that, I'm a horrible backseat driver) and that doesn't always make for the most enjoyable car rides! But not having our car meant lot's of walking and conquering the MetroLink.

We did lot's of touristy things. We went to the top of the Gateway Arch, visited St. Louis Union Station (similar to Chicago's Navy Pier), the St. Louis Zoo, went to the Art Museum and explored downtown. We ate a couple good restaurants and one really GREAT one! For our anniversary dinner we ate at Landry's Seafood House, and it was DELISH!

We had a great trip and are so excited to have three states filled in on our map! We've already decided where we want to go next...Vegas baby!