First things first. We got them to change our room. We now have a speedy DSL connection. Yea!
Ob Roadgeekiness. We’re staying out in St. Louis County. The overhead signs they put at intersections have the standard county blue pentagon (as we see for county routes out in California) that says “St. Louis County” together with the street name. This is evidently the symbol used for the county road maintenance department.
Today, we went out to the town of St. Charles. This town has a main street with lots of neat stores. Small & Feisty’s favorite store was an old-fashioned general store with lots of candies you don’t find today. We also saw lots of dust-catcher stores, found some wonderful spice stores [links: Old Town Spice Shoppe; Main Street Marketplace] (but not Penzy’s, which is in St. Louis proper), and most importantly, found two quilt stores, one of which was quite spectacular. We also walked down to the Missouri River, and took a tour of the 1st state capitol of Missouri.
For dinner, we got together with some long-time family friends, Al and Rita H. These were good friends of my mother. We tried to go to dinner in Forest Park, but the wait was over an hour, so we opted to go to “The Hill” instead (“The Hill” is the Italian part of town). We ate dinner at Mama Campisi’s, and had that famous St. Louis creation, Toasted Ravioli. Afterwards, we went to the H’s home and chatted for a while.
All in all, a delightful day and evening.
[8/2: Edited to add some links]
