Saturday (7/4)  We got up and left the campground because we went to stay a couple of days with Rich's cousin.  Faye and Don wanted to show us some more of St. Louis.

We went to St. Charles, a quaint historic little town with many very old and well kept buildings. This was the first Capitol of Missouri. It is a great place to walk around, look at buildings  and go into nice gift shops.  

Right down by the water is the Lewis and Clark Museum.   This where the full continent of the Lewis and Clark Expedition started their journey. In the museum are three replica boats of the ones used by Lewis and Clark.  Since 2004 was the centennial anniversary of the journey, a group of 320 re-enactors duplicated the trip.   There were so many re-enactors because people have to work and they could not take off two years to do the trip start to finish, so many people did little segments of the trip.  We spoke to a man who did 95% of the trip and he told about the trip with great enthusiam.  It is so fun to see someone who had done "the trip of a lifetime" and just can't contain his excitement.  The museum is very small and does not have a lot of artifacts but it does have the re-enactors which was even better.

From there we went right next door to the Ameristar Casino.   As usual, Rich won a little and Sue lost.  In fact, the combined amount that Sue, Faye and Don lost equaled what Rich won.  He was having none of giving our money back even though we tried.

We went back to Faye and Don's house to relax a little before driving to a great vantage point to see fireworks.  It was such a pleasant day.