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Arriving in St. Louis to a spectacular lightning storm, we feared the weather was not likely to be favourable whilst here. This was certainly the case when the next morning, awakening to some of the largest thunder I have ever heard (shaking the house and setting car alarms off - the cool 'apocalyptic' style thunder!) we decided to brave the rain and wait it out whilst watching the new Star Trek (nerd) at the movie theater (learning this Yank speak).

I don't think I could have gotten much wetter on the way and if the film hadn't been so enjoyable, I may have noticed that we had formed a large puddle of rain water around us.
We left the Cinema no drier but to a complete change to sun and clear skies. Typical.

Sock drying time.

And I promise that will be the last talk of the weather on this post, other than to say, the rest of the time, it was beautiful.

We had originally planned to stay with a friend of Richards, PJ, but it turned out, he didn't really have the space and had arranged for us to stay with some of his friends, Liz and Ann Marie. They were great hosts and although vegans, were very friendly!
They had a cardboard coffin in their front room but we were assured this was normal. There is a story behind this but not one worthy typing. Infact, I'm not sure why I bothered mentioning it if I'm not going to explain it..maybe I should take it out, but I've already written all this now so I'll just leave it in a keep you guessing. HA.

St. Louis also has a "Church" of Scientology.

I saw students protest outside here everyday. I'm not sure what they think they'll achieve, but it keeps them off the streets. As it were.

PJ had invited us to a Jewish Banquet he and his housemate had organised. This turned out to be a very enjoyable night and I got to sample alot of Kosher meals and less than 'Kosher' beer. We also met some friendly people who invited us to their place the following day. Here, we got drunk and ended up playing guitar til wee hours. Most fun.

No Pictures of these events as the camera wasn't Kosher...it's a Nikon.

St. Louis is also home to Blueburry Hill, a bar where the legendary Chuck Berry still plays once a month. Needless to say with our luck, this would not be whilst we were there.

Where I found my thrill...at Blueberry Hill.

Downtown St.Louis doesn't have much 'happenin' apart from the arch so we stayed around the university area mostly.

The Arch. Interesting aye?!

The campus is incredible and the surrounding parks have many attractions.

We went boating.(Reinventing the rowing method)

And zooing. "I think it's a rock"

And so concludes my tale of St.Louis. Our journey continues down the Mississippi where I walk in Memphis and feel a good song could be made about the experience.