Photo Week #16
Last week when I checked in at the Oakland Airport on Swarm, Swarm told me that this was my fifth straight week in a row at airports. Although I am very thankful that I have the ability and freedom to travel, I think I’ll be glad to not have to go on an airplane anytime soon! One more quick weekend trip coming up to Big Sur this coming weekend (and a 12k run…) and hopefully my May will be a little quieter and local.
This past weekend, Jeremiah and I flew to St. Louis to spend the weekend there with some of his friends. I have never really traveled to the midwest before and after going there, I have to say that it is a lot quieter and flatter than I expected. First thing we did when we got off the plane was go find coffee. I’ve realized that there are a lot of things I don’t know about coffee – I always feel very awkward ordering a pour over coffee from a place that I can’t pronounce. So I just point.
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The first day, we did a lot of height related things that reinforced that I am definitely scared of heights. We were able to go up to the top of the St. Louis arch (the gateway to the west, apparently) – the little pod that we rode up in reminded me of some sort of Disneyland ride, and it was a lot faster than I thought it would be! It was about four minutes to get to the top and three minutes down.
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We then went to the City Museum, which is not a museum and more like a city jungle gym. In the picture below you can sort of see all the wire tubes that go from around the plane towards the building – those were all tubes that you could climb through, and let me tell you that it took a lot of effort to get myself to climb through them.
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Hands down the best thing we ate in St. Louis was barbecue at Pappy’s. We ordered the ribs and the brisket, and I really liked their version of slaw as well. Unfortunately I did not have time to take photos of the food before we ate it! We also ate barbecue at Salt & Smoke, but I preferred the ribs and brisket at Pappy’s.
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I also became a bandwagon Cardinals fan for a night. I think I remember in early high school watching the Cardinals win the world series… or maybe it was the Angels in middle school. Either way, I’m sorry that I don’t have a baseball team that I am loyal to but I will always be loyal to baseball game nachos and watching playoff basketball games whenever possible.
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On our last full day in St. Louis, we went to this very hip and very trendy cute brunch spot (Cafe Osage) that also had a garden store attached to it. It was like what I hope my future parties and living room and garden to look like, except I wonder if by the time I have the time and money (and the ability to actually care for plants) all these things will be out of trend.
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Lastly, we went to the St. Louis Art Museum where I was surprised to see that they also had a copy of Degas’ Little Dancer of Fourteen Years statue. Are there just, like, fifty of these distributed among major art museums? I generally like art museums and this one had enough art to keep me entertained for a good amount of time. I always wish I had taken more art history classes at school, although if I consider my current knowledge of math and computer science, I’m not sure that even if I had I would be able to remember the knowledge…
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Look how flat it is.