Who cares about St. Louis?

Hello all, the week has been fairly eventful. Last Saturday I went out to Lauren's lake house when I got off work. Ashley and I rode up together. It was fine. Lauren had a big group of people out and it was pretty fun. We all just laid around in the lake on tubes and floaties. We went tubing a few times. That was sweet. The first time I went out with Becca. She was hilarious! Her little body just kept flopping and she would land on me every once in awhile. The second time I went with Liz. That was a little more interesting. Lauren's tube has like 10 handles and for some reason Liz wasn't content with the handles on her side so she kept moving and always seemed to want the handle I was already using. URGH! But it was fun.

Sunday morning mom, Sarah and I left for St. Louis. We drove almost all the way through just stopping for gas. As we were getting into the city, you know, like 45 miles out but mom insisted we were in the city, she told us to look for the arch. As we came around the corner we saw the arch and out of the blue Sarah shouts, "JESUS!" My mom thought it was because she was in awe of the arch or it just shocked her that much. The reality was that she was reading a billboard. It was funnier to those of us in the car than you the readers. One of those 'had to be there' moments that I had to write about because it was funny to us.



Mom and Sarah, she, Sarah, ruined every picture she was in by making some sort of face. Leave it to Sarah to cause a ruckous!

Upon ariving at the hotel, we noticed that quite a few people were double fisting beers or carrying around cases and coolers. We also noticed that everyone was wearing either St. Louis apparel or Cubs apparel. Put two and two together and the baseball retards that are the three of us figured out that the Cubs must be playing the Cards in St. Louis that night. Come later to find out that everything, I mean EVERYTHING is closed on Sunday in St. Louis. We never would have guessed this being as it is a large city but whatever. We saw the arch, which was cool, but I wish I would have been able to see a cross-section of the arch to see the tracks that the little cars are on that pull you to the top. Once at the top, you are crammed into this tiny space with about a million other people, who smell, and little kids who scream and run all over. But the view was pretty cool. Sunday night we ate appetizers and had AWESOME smoothies in the bar at the hotel.

Monday morning we woke up and drove to the park that the zoo and art museum were located in. After driving around for 20 minutes we finally get to the zoo where there was free admission yet you had to pay $9.00 to park. I guess we know why the zoo is free. The zoo was pretty cool with the exception of the 100 degree weather at 10:00. After the zoo we headed to the art museum only to find out that it was closed on Mondays so we headed back to the hotel to lounge by the pool. The pool was decent, on the roof so we were closer to the sun, but it was cool because the arch was in our back yard. The only bad part of getting to the pool was taking the elevator that had glass open to the outdoors all the way up to the 30th floor! Scary!



These are Somalian Asses. Yes, and Ass from Somalia.


Scratch that, the above picture is of a generic Zebra, nothing too exciting there. But yes, this was an actual sign at the zoo.

So because we couldn't go to the art museum on Monday we went on Tuesday and then to Union Station. The art museum was an art museum and nothing like El Prado. And Union Station, way unimpressed! It would have been fun if a) I was a Cards fan, b) I was 12, or c), hungry. Other than that, nothing. Did go to the Cards Clubhouse store and bought an offical St. Louis Cards hat. Red had with blue 'StL.' There is a better story about the hat that I shall tell when I am done with vacay, I believe that is a technical term. We went to Laclede's Landing one night and had an awesome dinner at Hannigans. It was like an applebees but nicer and a better atmosphere. And the waiter, survey says...do-able. Or at least in my case, he was worth 5 stars. We left St. Louie on Wednesday morning and as we drove home we hit the outlet malls. We all bought some new clothes and such. It was a good time. Over all, Vacation was great. It was nice to not have a structured day and to be able to lay around by the pool or in the room and not worry about ANYTHING!



The girls before our night out at Laclede's Landing. Did I mention our driver, James. He was cool.

Moving on, so I have decided to become a Cards afficionado. Thus far, I have been hit on twice while wearing my hat at work. And multiple people have asked me about it. And you know me, being baseball retarded, I just tell them I know jack about baseball when asked. On Friday night it actually did me some good. This kid was at the course with a few of his friends and I noticed him upon driving up to the clubhouse on my cart. I smiled and then noticed that hid friends went inside and he sort of hung outside. I wasn't paying attention and I hear someone say, "we played today right?" I was thinking, "is he talking to me....?" Then I realized he was refering to my hat. So then I had to explain to him that I just bought the hat because I went to St. Louis. We talked for a few minutes and I learned that he played baseball for Roosevelt and graduated last year. His name was Tyler. I felt pretty good by the time I left and had talked to him a few more times. Unfortunately, nothing came out of it. But it was a good story. All the guys in the clubhouse that night gave me so much crap, but it was fun.

I have been writing this post for awhile, so I am just going to keep writing about what has been going on. My friend Alicia had to go up to Rochester last week to have open heart surgery. She has had problems with her heart since she was born, I'm not really sure what but something. They replaced the valve when she was 9 and then again when she was 14 because she kept growing. And now that she is 19, they went back in and replaced it again with an adult valve. Sunday night we all got together and watched movies and had a salt fest because she can't eat high concentrations of salt for awhile now. It was pretty awkward at times but otherwise a good time.

This week nothing too interesting went on. I worked, A LOT!, and yesterday I had my physical to go to school. They shot me three times with needles. My finger prick for typical blood work, my PPD to test for TB, and my Menengitis shot. That one still hurts today. As for the others, I'm pretty sure the TB test will be negative, and they wont find anything too interesting in my blood work. Oh, and I must have slept with a spider because I have bites all over my legs. Kind of creepy but I guess it happens. I analpramed my legs last night before I went to bed, but I still itch. Oh, and today I bought my laptop. No Tony, I didn't get an Apple. Instead I got the HP dv4710us. It has a Centrino processor, 100GB hard drive, some odd amount of memory, CD/DVD player and burner, 4 USB ports, and all kinds of other stuff. It was decently expensive but the guy who helped me told me it was a good computer for a good price. So, now I just have to wait for it to come in.

Well, I think this is long enough. I hope my settings stay the same from the draft to the actual post. I have been having problems with that recently. So, that's all for now....