After the movie we went to the museum. It had a very interesting layout. It was in a shape of a semi-circle and as you walked into the museum the dates of the displays would change by decades. Well i thought it was a cool idea..
Saw this quote buy Orville Wright....boy was he wrong.
Here we have the oldest picture ever recorded in the United States...and i just showed it to you. Better be grateful. i guess you could have googled it...
Me and Jefferson hanging out.
Snap! He's still working on this thing! He finished the Liberty Bell!! Holla!
We finally stopped at a place worth seeing...The Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company. 
i know a lot of their beer is horrible...but they don't have 50% of the market share for nothing.
First thing we saw on the tour was the Clydesdale horses. Not sure what they horses are used for..i wasn't paying attention but these are some big horses. Their tails were short though...
Through the tour we saw the whole brewing process and found out that they use rice in their recipe to make the beer lighter..or crappier...depends on how you like your beer. Of course the only reason we went through the tour was for the free two samples of beer at the end. i had a wheat beer that i've never had before that was actually pretty good and my second beer was their pumpkin spice which i had the night before at Joe's Crab Shack but decided to have another one to see if it tasted any different coming straight from the brewery. It actually did taste better...like a stronger pumpkin spice after taste.
While heading out of St. Louis, we stopped at Ted Drewes Frozen Custard. Supposedly the best ice cream ever...we'll see about that. When we go to Drewes we found out it was closed. Closed since sept. 1. Noooo! Thankfully a couple had parked near by coming home and told us that there was another Ted Drewes location that was still open. Looks like we got a little mixed up. This Drewes was the original store...and the other location was the Route 66 one which i guess is what we really wanted....since everything we do is Route 66.
This van pulled up to the custard place....they had a bore and deer (plastic) strapped on the hood...weird.
At the Route 66 Ted Drewes i wasn't sure what to get so i got one of their specials, The Big Apple. Its their vanilla ice cream blended with a slice of apple pie and they call it one of their concretes. It was pretty good but i wouldn't say it was the best ice cream i've ever had.
Or next stop was some random bridge connecting Missouri and Indiana over the Mississipi. Chain of Rocks Bridge or something...its closed but people are still free to walk across or bike it. My uncle and dad wanted to walk across it so they could say they walked across the Mississippi...woohoo.
One of the weird things about this bridge is that it has a bend in it...its not totally straight.
Some random super old fire truck..
Got another picture of a Historic Route 66 sign.
By the end of the day we arrived at our hotel in Springfield, IL and the guy at the front desk said if we were interested in beer...then smokey bones was the place to go.i was feeling a little bit under the weather so i got a cup of chicken noodle soup.
When ordering beer...we all got a glass of Spaten but our waiter said that it would be cheaper if we just got a pitcher...so we did that...and after we had finished the pitcher we tried ordering different beers but my dad and uncle had wanted the same thing so we got another pitcher because for a dollar more we got a lot more beer and our waiter didn't want us to miss out on more beer for our money.
Still not eating beef...so i ordered a grilled chicken sandwich with the loaded mashed potato.
My dad and uncle failed to finish the pitcher so i had to step in and down the rest of it...poor me.
Well its been a long trip...the end of Route 66 will be reached when we arrive at Chicago tomorrow!
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