Saint Louis.

I am back from Saint Louis. It was a completely wonderful, fantastic, marvelous,
smashing little trip. I had such a good time with the folks its not even funny. The ride down was good, I was pretty tired so I just listened to music and read some mindless fashion magazines (Hey, at least it was InStyle.) Our hotel was SWEET, Edward Jones likes to butter up the vets so we literally were in one of the sweetest suites I have ever been in. Wow, lamo. Anyways. Okay, I need to try and focus and give just the basics, it was just a trip to Saint Louis for cripes sake.

*Thursday*
Went bead shopping in the morning, spent way too much Money. Had lunch at this fantastic little café with a twist of Spain in the cuisine and décor. Found this amazing little Moroccan clothing store that had just the kind of things I love. Got a few pieces priced incredibly reasonably as that sort of thing usually is. Then we did some more shopping, beads, art store, I got this amazing light to hang off my ceiling, its in the shape of a star yet has an Eastern Indian pattern on it. Blah, picked up Dad, went to dinner at Union Station (It was wicked fun) shopped some more.

*Friday*
It was raining, Mum and I popped into Starbucks for coffee and decided that today we would head to a mall. Oh my word, we power shopped. I found lots of stuff I really love, and so did Mum, but I won’t be a drag and list everything here. Then we picked up Dad, did dinner, and I thought it would be fun to go to a movie to kind of top off the weekend. So I suggested ‘The Manchurian Candidate’. Heh, bad idea. I keep forgetting that my parents are basically into fluffy feel good movies, and the one we were watching at present was a little intense. Lets just say I covered my mothers eyes many times. Heh. But I think in the end they liked it. Sort of.

Ug, I just had so much fun, especially with Mum. It was just so refreshing to do the kind of stuff we like to do with no interruptions, no pressure to hurry up, no kids to watch, no guilt. I just plain had a great time being my parents only kid for a bit. I don’t think I could have had anymore fun then I did, the only problem is….

My bank account is virtually depleted.