Voss Vaca 2020 - Day 9 - Arriving in St. Louis

After all of our hiking, we were ready to be at a place with a bed.  The kids were also anxious to get into the pool, because that's one of the most fun parts about staying at a hotel.  They were also pumped about getting into the hot tub, because they aren't allowed to at the Y, but they know they can when we're on vacation, lol!  I already told you about the food fiasco.  If you haven't read the Shawnee National Forest - Lake Glendale blog yet, go back and read that one first.  I wrote out a blog for the entire day, but then got nervous about the number of pictures I was adding to the one blog, so I ended up splitting it into 3 blogs.  This is number 3.  I'm not sure if I'll be able to upload Michael's pictures to this blog or not, but he got more/better pictures that night than I did, so I'm going to try.  Fireworks are never as good in the pictures, but at least you'll be able to see our view.  :-)

The next morning, before we left, I went down to get breakfast, but their little kitchen area was closed.  They did, however, have a few things behind the desk that an employee would get for you.  One other woman was downstairs when I went down, and she explained that her daughter travels for softball and this was one of the only places they'd been that hadn't completely shut down their breakfasts.  So I guess I'm glad that something was available.  Overall, I was very impressed with the hotel and their safety measures.  Obviously, there was a pane of plastic between the employee and guests at the front desk, you also had to be buzzed into the hotel or use your room key to get in, so random people weren't able to come in.  They even detained a group of teenage girls that came in behind some guests and made someone come from a room to pick them all up out of the lobby, I already mentioned that we had to sign up for an hour block of time to swim, that surfaces were sanitized before and after we left, there were also signs in the elevator saying to only go up with your group, which I thought was a really good idea.  My my my, the world sure is changing.  Anyway, we had a nice stay in St. Louis, but we were all ready for a night in our own beds the next day.  Check out the next blog to find out about our next day in St. Louis and the last leg of our drive that seemed to take FOREVER.  ;-)