We spent the day touring St. Louis. We returned to the Gateway Arch to see the IMAX movie and then visited Forest Park. But first a little detour.
Sam had been noticing that her insulin pump was not behaving. The buttons were "freaking out." We decided the pump needed to be replaced .Too dangerous not to have the pump. We contacted MiniMed and they sent a pump by UPS for the next day. Meanwhile we needed a back up.
Sam brought her InDuo as a backup for her pump. Except that the battery in the pen of the InDuo was no longer working and could not deliver insulin. We could not figure out how to change the battery or even where it was. Maybe it's meant to be disposable. So now what? We decided we would visit a Walgreens to figure out what to do.
Meanwhile, we returned to the Gateway Arch and the IMAX movie "Lewis and Clark Great Journey West". The National Geographic movie is very well done. It is a 45 minute story of the complete journey of Lewis and Clark.
After the movie we walked the museum. The museum has lots of information and displays about the history of the west. We spent a couple of hours walking through the museum and listening to a ranger presentation. Our new favorite word is "Serendipity."
Back to Sam's situation. The pump seems to be cooperating, but we really need a backup plan. We found a Walgreens near Forest Park. Did you know that in some states you don't need a prescription for syringes? Well Missouri is one of those states. We bought a few syringes and we had our backup plan in place.
Everyone was hungry by now so we found an Applebee's across the street from Walgreens and had lunch.
Forest Park was just around the corner. We found the Visitor's Center and got our bearings. Across the way was a museum with several displays. We spent some time in the museum then decided to catch the shuttle bus and go to the St. Louis Zoo.
The St. Louis Zoo is a good size zoo with many different sections to walk through. We only missed one section of the zoo before we had to leave before the zoo closed. We took a lot of pictures at the zoo so we made a separate photo album for the zoo (and the entire day).
Before going back to the trailer we had to take a few minutes and drive by Murphy Lake.
