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Thursday, May 06, 2004
1:41 PM

STL Day 2 (aka Lois Proves Herself Once Again)
When I last updated the STL report, we were all taking naps. Pretty exciting eh?

First of all, about the nap (still exciting eh?). Let me say how much I love Lois & Tom's basement guest room (hereinafter Lois & Tom shall be referred to as "L&T" for ease of reference). I have this thing about trying to block any and all light in my bedroom at night and during naps (sort of like Nicole Kidman's kids in the movie the Others). The first thing we changed in one of our houses was the blinds in the master bedroom that seemed to actually generate light rather than block it. Who puts blinds like that in their bedroom?? Really. I like it dark. Needless to say, the basement room rocks!! Very dark. But I digress. (Can you tell yet that I had perhaps a bit too much caffeine at lunch?)

So after the fabulous nap in the wonderfully dark basement room (darkness is especially key during naps, but I digress again), off we went to pick Mark up at the airport. We managed to reach him on his cell phone right as he got off the plane so we had yet another picture perfect pickup. And off we went to expose poor uninitiated Mark to his first taste of the Midwest. Two things struck him at first. The first were the freeway signs that pointed you toward places like "Memphis" "Kansas City and "Chicago". Just seems much more far afield than those here in mundane SoCal. The second was the complete lack of walls between people's yards. I must agree with him that I don't get that either. I tend to agree with the saying "Good fences make for great neighbors." But to each his/her own. If you crazy STL people want everyone in your yard, more power to you.

We arrived at L&T's just in time for yet another fabulous dinner prepared by Tom. BBQ pork steaks, grilled vegetables. Mmmmmm. Of course I must give some credit for the dinner idea to Lois. Tom wanted to make chicken but he was finally worn down after about the gazillionth comment from Lois like "Are you sure you don't want to make pork?" Ok, it wasn't a gazillion. More like 378. But given the delicious outcome, I think that yet again, Lois established her superior knowledge about all aspects of life. Tom should join me in allowing Lois to run his life (Wait! He already has! I'll just join him.)

After dinner, we had a momentous event. Truly life-changed, mind-altering, point-of-no-return kind of thing. Allow me to demonstrate with a picture:

Anyone recognize it? Anyone? Bueller? Well for the non-STL folks, that is the famous Ted Drewes mentioned earlier. Just what we needed after gorging on too much dinner. (I must confess that the picture is not 100% accurate because as of this point in the trip, Laura wasn't home yet. Pardon my creative license.) Ted Drewes rocks. Frozen custard with things blended in. Mmmm. I had a caramel nut one that night. Double mmmm.

Back to sleep in the basement room. (I already have a foolishly long post and I haven't even gotten to Friday yet!!!)

I'll close for now. Don't want to bore anyone with a too-long post. But plenty more to come. Please tune in next time for the next installment.

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