Blogs from Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North America - page 6

September 2009 The best part of any industrial tour is the free samples at the end, and of all the factory tours we have taken, nobody does free samples better than the Anheuser-Busch Brewery Tour. On a rainy Labor Day weekend in St. Louis we took the Brewery Tour at the Anheuser-Busch plant with our best friends Rod & Mary. The plant is located just off I55 at Exit 206C. We arrived just after ten, and found the free tours were running every 15 minutes. Be sure to bring your walking shoes, and as in our case, your umbrella. This is not one of those faux industrial tours that transport you along on a tram viewing videos of what is happening elsewhere in the plant. Here you will experience a very well done factory tour. We ... read more

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Geo: 38.4907, -90.3796Not long now. Next Saturday we leave for Ireland and the big wedding. Temps look like they are in the 60s. it will be great after the heat here. Been organizing my clothes, doggies are looking worried, Been trying to talk Gary into getting set up on Skype so my doggies can see me while I am gone, but he doesn't seem very interested. downloaded a bunch of books and movies...what more do I need? I am ready. the Ashes are leaving Wednesday, so they will be a few days ahead of us. We plan to hook up with them in Dingle, if we all survive driving across country on the wrong side of the road while shifting gears with our left hand. should be an adventure.... read more

After checking out of the State Capitol Inn, we left the car in their car park and walked over to the Old State Capitol to discover that they had a Civil War Medical Encampment set up in the grounds this weekend. Talking with the volunteers it seems that there is some Civil War re-enactment somewhere in the United States just about every week of the year!! We thought that we would just have a quick wander around the grounds and take a couple of photos of the volunteers in period costumes and the Old State Capitol from the outside. Just as we were about to leave, the guy on the gate asked if we had been into the Capitol building. When we said that we hadn't he encouraged us to go in before leaving. So we ... read more

Geo: 38.6276, -90.199We've been home for a bit now ~ actually, a couple of weeks. Basically, we had a nice vacation. We enjoyed seeing my family in Seattle, we luved-luved our day together in downtown Seattle, we thought sailing out of Vancouver was beautiful, the ship was beautiful, Mexico was pretty-much what we expected the "poorer" side of Mexico to be, Carnival Cruise Lines did not disappoint in service and amenities, and we spent much less than I had budgeted, and overall... everything went smoothly.... no bad hotel rooms, missed flights, train wrecks, or stolen purses. It was all good. Was it fantastic and so overwhelming wonderful that we were left in a fog of wonderful feelings (like our honeymoon cruise two years ago)??? Ummmm... NO. Was it a good cruise and a good experience with ... read more