So, I forgot to say in the post before this that we checked into our hotel and we have the best view. The St. Louis Arch is seriously right outside our window. It is really cool to see every morning and evening right there. So, today we got up early and went to the oldest farmer's market west of the Mississippi River. It was the Soulard Farmer's Market. We found some breakfast there from an organic bakery that sold food at the market. It was really cool because it is an indoor market so it is open all year round. One booth even had hip scarves for bellydancing! And, this is kinda scary, but one stand actually had live chickens and ducks. I was like...eww. Anyways, after that we headed over to the Anheuser-Busch Brewery for a FREE tour. And it was really great. The tour of the factory was completely free and we got two free samples of beer at the end. And these samples were like 12 oz. glasses of beer. It was neat. The factory itself was much more than we expected. It was so nice, we couldn't believe it. It kind of felt like we were in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Willy Wonka's factory...except without that scary boat part. We liked seeing the big fermentation tanks and stuff like that. It was beautifully landscaped too, for a factory, it was just amazing. Then, we went back and parked the car at the hotel and took a walk through the city. We ended up at Union Station and decided to eat lunch at Houlihan's. We wanted to eat at KC Masterpiece but apparently it closed. So, we ate and walked around there and look at the shops for a while. We even sat for like twenty minutes in Brookstone and got massaged by the three thousand dollar chair. After we finished playing there, we took the long walk back to our hotel and took pictures of the city. When we got back to the hotel, we thought that we would take a nap, but instead we walked over to get a snack from the mini-mart place that was down the block. Then, we took the car and drove over to Laclede's Landing. There were a lot of restaurants and bars there and we drove on the old brick roads that ran through that old, historic area. It was hilarious because the car was being jostled all over and we were bumping around in the car uncontrollably. It was hilarious. And when we left the area and got back onto the smooth, modern road, the car was still shaking like we were on the bumpy, brick road. We were laughing so hard. Anyways, so then we got back to the hotel and actually took a nap like we originally planned. We woke up, got dressed nice and went out to a really nice restaurant for dinner named Portabella. It was really good. We both gave it a 9/10. I had chicken ravioli and Alex had stuff chicken and we shared asparagus and some sort of chocolate dessert. It was fabulous. Then, we took a walk around the area and went back to the hotel to get some sleep.
Posted by Catholic Chump on 10/08 at 07:44 PM |
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