Blogs from St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America - page 8

Suggested Listening for this Entry: Let me attack this three ways. First, for historical context, listen to “The Cheater” by Bob Kuban and the In Men. Second, for a feel of the music heard at this show, find your city’s biggest name wedding/bar mitzvah band and sit through their versions of “We Are Family” and “Celebration". Third, I can’t leave you readers with a bad musical taste in your mouths, so give a listen to the CD Rockin’ Eighty-Eights by St. Louis piano players Johnnie Johnson, Clayton Love and Jimmy Vaughn. Suggested Food and Drink for this Entry: Since we’re back in the Anheuser-Busch fatherland, let’s go with a bottles of Bud Light. For grub, grab something off a hot dog cart in a park. When I was in St. Louis the prior week, I had ... read more

Suggested Listening for this Entry: Anything by St. Louis native son Chuck Berry Suggested Foor and Drink for this Entry: A grilled sausage of your choosing (Italian, Brat, Polish) on a bun and a Budweiser (because you won't find any Miller products at Busch Stadium). After the previous evening's scares of non-starting jet engines and the Hampton Inn-Union Station in St. Louis not having the room I reserved (not mentioned earlier), I was ready for a new day. A day with baseball and beer. After picking up my rental tank, I mean SUV, and dropping it off at the hotel, I headed to the new Busch Stadium. I was very anxious to see how it compared to Nationals Park, home of my beloved Washington Nationals, one of the worst teams in baseball. Plus, I was hoping ... read more

Today we toured around Saint Louis. We went to the top of the Arch after viewing a video about how they built this 640 ft. tall structure. The construction workers would walk around the top with out any ropes, crazy. We walked down to the Missippippi and had lunch at the Landing. In the afternoon we made it over to the Anheuser-Busch Brewery and watched how they make Bud. 0 miles traveled. ... read more

We've come to our final destination. The USofA for Carly & Paul's wedding. Chi Town Arriving in Chicago, it was nice to be met by someone at the airport, and someone who could talk to us and we could understand (my dad). So good to see the family again, and also some of Phuong's family too. My little nephew (who's almost one) has learnt to do kisses : D - well he leans in, and you get a bit of slobber, but it's the most adorable thing in the world. Chicago feels like my 2nd (or 3rd maybe) home but it was Tim's first trip so we didn't hang home long before heading out to see some sights. I was a little skeptical about coming back to the US, one of the world's "super-powers" is not ... read more

Tim and I love to play tour guide in our "new" city. So, Ken and Fey are perfect victims.... HA. Ken has spent enough time roaming the midwest. Frankly, in my opinion there is only so much any one person can tolerant from the midwest..... Hey, I'm a midwestern by birth, so I can make such a statement..... and you know it's true. But, we make the best of it. We show the kids the Gateway Arch, a must do when in St. Lou. We have lunch at Morgan Street Brewery in Laclede's Landing (one of STL older parts/neighborhoods on the banks of the Mississippi River). The beer is pretty good as is the rest of the food. STL really knows how to do tavern food, if that is what you like? We got so lucky ... read more