Day 2... Found One

Before we leave St. Louis there are a couple of things to do. Since we were up so early we went for a walk in the 'City Garden' which is a sculpture park just out side our hotel. There were some pretty interesting pieces there. One in particular was a huge, hollow bronze head laying on it's side. Jasper of course went right inside and looked out though the eye. What fun. We wrapped that up, and then went to a yoga class under the arch.... well we were both there and one of us participated in the yoga. The other one of us rolled around on the grass and took pictures. All in all, pretty age appropriate I think.
First a nice healthy breakfast...

Then playing in the city garden...

 Feeling upside down.. not sure how this happened with this picture, but you get the idea.

Yoga and pretzels...

After all that time driving, this felt really good.












After the yoga class, we went to visit the Scott Joplin house just outside of downtown St. Louis. It was a really neat tour and it was great to see Jasper get excited about the original great American 'classical' music. We spent quite a bit of time there talking to the staff and listening to the old piano rolls. Unfortunately something happened to the photos on my camera card and we lost all the pictures we took there. We did meet an interesting fella who runs a ragtime blog you can check out though. Worth the time. 

Here We Go!

Where to go this year, where to go...
Well, why not go to Graceland. As a regular mortal I know that I'm only going to live once so since I've never been I decided to take the boy down south a bit and have some music and BBQ adventures.
This is the story of that trip.

This trip started out like any other... with the oil changed and the tires filled up... and of course mocking Dad...

 Yep, He can fill a tire too...

  

Even made sure the spare was inflated...

 

 So after all that, we hit the road. The drive was pretty uneventful. We slept on the road some and I drove a lot, but we finally made it to St. Louis, MO for our first bit of the adventure.

 

We went and spent some time in the old court house. There are exhibits about the history of St. Louis in there and it's an interesting building architecturally I guess, but the most interesting thing I thought was that it was the court house where Dred Scott trial was held. 

 

After completing the Junior Ranger program there, we had a bowl of red beans and rice and headed for the arch. Jasper was a bit nervous about going up there, but warmed up to it before too long. There's also a museum underneath it so we spent some time there taking that in as well (and working the Junior Ranger program too of course).

      And we wrapped up the day with a good meal and some live music at BB's Blues, Jazz and Soups the food was tasty,the service was great, the locals were friendly and the music was 'awesome'. Great way to end our first day of the trip.