Labor's Day Trip - Getaway to St. Louis, Missouri - Day 1

Just two weeks after the fall semester started, we had another holiday. It was Labor's Day which fall on Monday. Thus, my friend and I got a long nice weekend holiday. :) And not to waste this chance, we decided to go to St. Louis in Missouri, a neighboring state to Illinois.

Since we didn't have any cars, we decided to take a bus. The drive took about 3.5 hours from Champaign to St. Louis. First time to do after arriving was checking-in to the hotel. We stayed in Millenium Hotel, located in St. Louis downtown area, just opposite Busch Stadium. If you are a fan of baseball, you will know St. Louis Cardinal.

Relaxing in the hotel after 3 hours drive

Because we only had limited time, we didn't want to waste it lying on the bed in the hotel. So, we started our first trip in St. Louis. Just across the hotel, we saw Busch Stadium. There was a game between St. Louis Cardinal and another team at that day, so it was very crowded in the street.

Manage to take a good snapshot of Busch Stadium

Leaving the downtown area, we took a train to St. Louis Zoo, located in Forest Park area, a bit out of town. After 40 minutes of train and bus ride, we arrived at the zoo..

St. Louis Zoo

The admission to the zoo was free and we enjoyed looking at some weird-looking animals. :)

Weird camels, look like they are lining up

Puffin Bird, it has comical eyes that look similar to cartoon

We saw a lot more animals, but the pictures came out not good. :( From the zoo, we went to St. Louis Galleria, a big shopping center, to have dinner. On the way back to the hotel, we passed the Busch Stadium once again. It was very beautiful at night because the lights were on.

Busch Stadium at night

What I got from the zoo,

my monkey is happy to see it ;)

That's the end of our first day in St. Louis. It was a pretty tiring day, especially since we had to walk a lot and the rain was pouring hard at that time. So, we will have a very good night sleep. :)