Sunday, August 27, 2006

 

Casino Queen RV Park, East St. Louis, IL

August 22, 2006

Right now we are sort of lost. We planned on staying on a three night rafting adventure, but we couldn’t get cell phone service, and the place looked deserted. Now we have about 45 miles to empty and about 10 miles to the next town. We are driving on country roads. I mean, we just drove by a covered wagon à la Chuck Wagon Dog Food. Zorah and Ian were even doing the classic annoying each other in the back seat thing! It’s a beautiful road, but a little tension as the gas ticks down is making it a bit difficult to truly admire it. Brian is convinced that I am reading the signs and mileages wrong.

Anyway, yesterday we were in East St Louis, Illinois, right across the river from St Louis, MO. We stayed at the Casino Queen RV Park. When we got there, they gave us spaces on the cheap side of the park. I guess that people who stay here don't like to pay the extra six bucks for a big space with grass and a view of the Arch. Not us! So I went in to the office and requested the other side of the park. then Brian changed our assigned space on that side. We actually changed spaces so much that Brenda, the nice lady who worked in the office, had to come out and ask us if we had a problem. Twice.

Anyway, once we finally got parked in the space we wanted, our water hose was too short to reach the hookup. I stared at it for a little while, then just went and bought another hose. I was not about to move us again.

We went to the casino for dinner that night. Actually we went to the hotel. In East Saint Louis, and in Saint Louis, you can only have a casino if it is on the river. As in a boat. So what you do if you want to enter the actual casino is enter the hotel and lobby, then walk about a quarter of a mile down a tunnel onto a boat on the river. On the boat is the casino. Silly, huh? Apparently they have now changed these laws and are allowing casinos to return to the land. After dinner, we took the free shuttle back to the park, and Brian went to the casino. That's how I knew about the whole tunnel thing. Zorah and I went to the playground, yielding another one of her adorable action photos!

The next day we went to see the arch, but we were so hungry we just walked by took a few photos, and hightailed it to a restaurant. I still appreciated the arch more this time around. We didn't go inside, but we touched it and took pictures. I suppose it really is an interesting structure. It should have been shaped like a "Y" though, as in "Why did you build this?" Perhaps if we had taken the tour, we would know. Oh, well. It looks nice at sunset, no?

There were a great many cool things to see and do in St. Louis. We did none of them. We left the next day.

# posted by Rissa and Zorah @ 12:11 AM
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