Day 2

Beer & Art Day. Friday

June 5, 2009

In the morning we drove downtown for the Budweiser tour. At the end of the tour they give everyone two free beers (or soda/lemonade). It was enjoyable to relax with a cold beverage on a beautiful, sunny day. For lunch we ate Gus' pretzels at a local park. After lunch we roamed throughout the Art Museum showing Anson the mummies in the basement, the Impressionists on the main floor, and modern art with a few Picassos upstairs. We also saw a little of Forest Park. Later, J.D. and Anson went to Subterranean Books and looked in the tattoo place on Delmar. Both returned without ink. :) Later the guys went to a beer tasting festival and had quite a bit of fun.

Good Clydesdale. Bad Clydesdale.















On to the Art Museum. . . .






















Our favorite van Gogh on display.

The guys with the original
"Buddy Christ" (family joke)

At the Beer Festival a little miracle formed in Anson's glass. J.D. and Anson were obviously blessed by Buddy Christ: "Go forth and have smiley faces in thine beer."

Anson's Visit

Day 1: St. Louis Landmarks

630 feet up

Old Courthouse, looking West.

Looking East.

Chocolate Arch

Taylor Brothers make breakfast

June 4, 2009 Anson flew into St. Louis to visit us! It's great to see him and have company. We had lunch together at Blueberry Hill. Then we walked down to the Metro and went to see the Arch and the muddy Mississippi. On the way back, we stopped by Union Station to taste the Fudgery's version of the Arch. :) We also fed the Koi and showed Anson the whispering arch were you can whisper and have someone standing at the other end of the room hear you. Later the evening was filled with bowling at Pin Up and watching darts at Blueberry Hill again.

A busy first day!