The only other item we need to take care of in advance is reserving a time for the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
Potentially bad news here. Not too long ago all possible times on 7/16/05 were showing as available, even for a group of ten. Now no matter what time I put in for 7/16/05 I get a message that there is no availability found. This was hard to believe, but I then tried other dates around then and got the same result. I even tried days later in the summer, and then later in the year (like October, a slow travel month) and still got the same "no availability" message.
So either prepare for the possibility that we can't visit the Arch, or hopefully their site is just having an operational glitch. I will keep on trying. There is also a toll free number that I intend to call in the next couple of days to check with a live person about availability.
Again I would like to grab those tickets and reserve a time for the group visit as soon as possible, so please let me know your preferences for a time, and also state whether you can, can't, will, won't, should, shouldn't, etc. go up into the Arch. So I need a good body count to work with. Right now the number appears to be 10.