The best way to have more fun than anyone else is to go to the City Museum in St Louis. It's basically a huge playground for kids of all ages, and the only people having as much fun as you are the other people there with you. There are a ton of slides and tunnels and caves and everything you can imagine. There is actually a seven-story spiral slide you can go on, but you have to climb up seven flights of stairs to get there of course. The museum is housed in the old International Shoe Co. building, so the seven-story slide is actually a leftover "shoe chute" - like a garbage chute (what I thought it was at first) but for shoes (I probably didn't need to explain that). We did too much there to describe everything, but I'll just say that it is a must-see place for anyone visiting St Louis. Even a quadriplegic could enjoy themselves purely for the visual interest.
While in St Louis, we had dinner at Niche with our new friends Bredon and Carolyn, and enjoyed the hell out of it! I arrived a few hours early to take some pictures in the kitchen, which I will post at some point. It was pretty quiet in the kitchen, but everyone I met was really cool. For dinner, we all decided to let the kitchen send whatever they wanted, and Ben eventually had to tell them to stop because it was just so much food. Ben will write more about it, but highlights for me were: (a) eating the raw tomato slice in the tomato consumme; (b) eating RAW fish for the first time; (c) eating the entire piece of grilled trout; and (d) really liking all of the above.
The next night, Ben and I also at An American Place with his cousin Barry and Barry's wife Laura. Again, we were all very full by the end of an awesome meal. The next night we went to eat at Zia's on "the hill", the Italian area of St Louis, and it was pretty decent, but not nearly as good as the previous two nights. The best food that evening was when we went to Ted Drewe's for frozen custard. Damn it was so good, and I was really regretting having filled up so much at dinner.
We're now in Kansas City, and although we thought we were going to stay here for a couple of days, we realized that there's only one thing we are actually interested in here: going to Arthur Bryant's for BBQ. So we'll do that tonight, and then hit the road again tomorrow to head towards Denver.
We filled our gas tank yesterday for a ridiculous price of $3.229/gal. Then yesterday evening we saw it for $3.199/gal. I was sad we hadn't waited to save even more, but not as sad as today when we saw it for $3.119/gal! I don't know why the hell gas is so cheap here, but I am really not complaining.
Current Trip Stats: 3605 miles; 378 gallons of gas; 9.54 overall mpg
-Lily
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