St. Louis and Topeka

After leaving Nashville we basically planned to book it across Missouri and Kansas in order to get out to Denver as quickly as possible.  We stopped in St. Louis to check out the Gateway Arch and we grabbed lunch along the Mississippi.  It was my first time seeing the Mississippi River so that was pretty exciting, but we were in and out of St. Louis pretty quickly nonetheless.  We kept driving until we got to Topeka where it seems that there is nothing to see except Westboro Baptist Church.  Of course, I had to drive by and get a picture.  I didn't see anyone around, but I'm sure they were off somewhere protesting something.  I can't imagine that the members of the church are very happy people with all that hatred built up inside.  It's really quite sad.  After creeping on WBC we headed to our hotel and got to bed early since we planned to be up at 4 a.m. to head to Denver!