6th May 2010

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Belated St. Louis 1

So some time ago now I went to St. Louis and then promised a recap of my trip. I failed to follow through. Forgive me.

So, the thing about this short 4 day trip to St. Louis (end of March/beginning of April) is that is was really quite full. I mean, some of you will probably think we didn’t do near enough, and if we had rented a car we might have done more, but it sure seems like we did a lot. So I am going to break things up a bit. Here I am going to show you some of the lovely adventures we had in St. Louis, mostly Downtown. Then, in the next post (hopefully within a couple days) I will show you our trip to the wonderful MoBot!

Our evening arrival, waiting for the rail to take us downtown from the airport

Rooster, where we had an awesome breakfast. (We visited their sister restaurant later)

Then handsome went to his conference and I wandered down to see the big metal thing…

And the Mississippi River!!! (which was a little high)

Then I walked past the first Catholic church in St. Louis and headed to the Old Courthouse where the Dread Scott case was held. I figured I would pop in but probably spent over an hour there. It was incredible! (I have so many photos it could be its own post, but I will refrain.)

From here I was able to continue walking through the new City Garden sculpture park

pass the library

and head to get some well deserved gelato and sit before meeting up with conference man. (Did I mention it was almost 90 out?)

Later in our trip we did go to Bailey’s Chocolate Bar (FANTASTIC!) where we also had fancy drinks in addition to

On the day we were leaving we got to see a some friends and go to the City Museum, which was awesome and crazy! I gave a teaser photo before, but I think this sums it up nicely.

And that was pretty much our trip. We also ate great Thai food, met some friendly people, drank coffee and tea, and I took the fella back over to the City Garden and such. Of course, we also spent almost a whole day at the Missouri Botanical Garden, but that’s for another post.

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