Saturday | St. Louis

I decided yesterday before Friday even started that it was going to be a great weekend. 

.... So far, I'm still right (: 

Today = Something of a late start, but it was entirely worth it. I got some gorilla bread finished before 11am, which in and of itself was something random since my original plan was the traditional weekend scrambled eggs & potato deal. So yeah, definitely not an awful first step.

Poor Stella spent a loooong time cooped up yesterday, so it was the yard and some sunshine for her right away this morning: 

big smiles... for a gorgeous day!!

We finally got ourselves together and hopped in the car with an entirely blank agenda. That's what we usually do. We took off in the direction of St. Louis, knowing we would eventually find something that would interest us. It didn't take us long. 

Stop #1: Union Station in downtown St. Louis. 

union station | st. louis, mo
++ my new favorite shot of us .. just sayin' (: 

We walked around Union Station for a little bit; it reminded me of a blend between Easton Towne Ctr in Columbus [Ohio] & Newport on the Levee in Newport [Kentucky]. Whatever the case, it was pretty awesome, if nothing else than for the change of scenery and the fact that I'd just never been there. I decided today that I'll be back, probably with the D90 in hand.... hah.

Stop #2: Food. A must, for any weekend excursion, no matter where you are. Rob & I share an affinity for places off the beaten path, or in this case, right in the middle of it, but off the radar of the corporate food chain. Plus, it's nearing that fun little Irish holiday, so it seemed fitting all together for us to make it a pub stop. Llywelyn's it was. I'd never been, but I know now that I'd go back. 

in honor of my two favorite gingers...haha

Oh, and when we were finished, the server reminded us about their participation in one of those famous MDA fundraising things. We bought a clover, and I decided I would include my two favorite gingers, in honor of us being at an Irish pub and neither of us actually being Irish. Good times ;) 

Stop #3: His house. We stopped to check his mail and a couple of other things, and maaaaay or may not have snuck in a power nap here... [[*yes. Insert nap here.*]]

Stop#4: Broadway Oyster Bar! This part wasn't scripted, either, but as is nearly always the case with us, nobody would've known. A couple of his friends were there, plus Aaron Kamm & the One Drops were playing.... so the question would've been why NOT?

Yeah... we made that happen. 

yes, yes.... and yes, please.

Stop#5: HOME. That's now... and that's a wrap on another great day, folks. 

Today = WIN.

xo | cmd

Random Outing....

Rob tried bubble tea today. Haha. I don't know whether or not he actually liked it, but I had a great time and I definitely can't complain. We thought to take a trip over to St. Louis and wound up at St. Louis Bubble Tea, right in the midst of what was apparently a campus-wide ice sculpture festival.

I did find some cool sculptures...

abbey road! beatles ice sculpture | st. louis

Rob and I were definitely on Zumiez mode today; I realized that when we walked out of two different aisles in one of the campus shops and looked like brand reps from the Z. Haha.


zumiez addicts......

We'd burned most of the daylight out of the day and still hadn't made it back down towards Belleville. We decided to stop by Alton and found ourselves at Fast Eddie's for a few hours. We ran into some new people and made ourselves quite comfortable chatting it up with some random folks until we found some sunglasses on the floor [love that...]. Yeah, Rob still has them in his car.

rvca, a rum runner & some floor shades. call it a good night (:

One of the things I so appreciate about Rob is that he's about as spontaneous as I am, and when the agenda consists of a blank slate, it comes in handy. We had no plans one second, and the next we were off on our way to Collinsville to catch an appearance of Aaron Kamm & the One Drops. I totally dig barefoot guitarists, so this was a perfect way to round out the evening.


aaron kamm & the one drops | johnny's sidebar - collinsville

Ahhhh, hello weekend (:

xo | cmd