Forest Park and Union Station

The Jewel Box
(This is Karen posting). Located in Forest Park, The Jewel Box is a 7,500 square-foot greenhouse. It houses tropical plants, foilage plants, flowers, a water feature and a fountain. You can also reserve the building for a wedding, reception, or any other event that you feel would be nice to hold in a giant greenhouse. We would love to show you pictures of the aforementioned items in the Jewel Box, however, this particular day someone had the nerve to reserve it for their wedding on the same day as our outing. Rude. Therefore, we invite you to enjoy the pictures we were able to take of the outside.

They also have a pond with pretty lily pads and lilies. There's also a statue of Saint Francis of Assisi. (He's the one in the background.)
So, during part of our walk around the grounds, we came upon this interesting scene. We recently saw Toy Story 3 and this Piglet toy tied to the truck made us think of the movie. I guess people really do do this kind of thing. Interesting.
Forest Park is also home to the nation's first Korean War Memorial.
Since we were unable to go into The Jewel Box, we journey over to the Muny.

I just have to sing, "Meet me at The Muny, The Muny at Forest Park!" The Muny is the nation's oldest and largest outdoor theater. During the summer months, The Muny houses musical performances. There are even seating sections that you can sit in for free.
The Pavilion. (I'm noticing a lot of these structures begin with "The".) This is a common location for wedding/engagement pictures. A close-up of The Pavilion.There is also a man-made waterfall. You're very lucky we didn't get a close-up picture of what we saw sunbathing in the waterfall. It was pretty disturbing. This is a man that we saw earlier on our journey texting and driving his scooter. Here he pulled over on the side of the road. This is a statue outside of the St. Louis Zoo. The zoo is free to the public and it's a pretty good zoo. We might adventure there one of these days when it's not a ba-zillion degrees.
Our adventure also brought us to The Union Station. It was once the world's largest and busiest train stations. It is now home to a hotel, a shopping mall, restaurants and a food court.
It's also home to The Fudgery. Here the workers sing a few songs as they make the fudge. The singing was actually pretty good. Don't know about the fudge, we were good and didn't partake of any.
This is The Whispering Arch. Here's the plackard telling all about it.
We had a guest adventurer with us, meet Mary's sister, Amelia! Here we are listening to the whispers of Mary and Christina. Let me tell ya, it was juicy stuff they were telling us! Here Mary is reading the plackard. I can't remember if the plackard was hung up really high or if Mary's that short.
Interior views of Union Station.
Exterior views of Union Station.
Us, being us and enjoying ourselves.
Amelia and Mary. Thanks for coming with us.