Well, there were many adventures during our Thanksgiving Holiday. For the sake of all our sanity let’s skip the details of the drive from Virginia to St. Louis, MO via Indianapolis to see family. Paul’s tolerance for the “mommy, mommy, mommy” from the backseat always seem to wear out about two minutes before mine did but he was doing all the driving so that’s ok.
We had a wonderful visit with family in Indianapolis and St. Louis and we actually did some new stuff in St. Louis even though I have been visiting there since childhood. We went to the City Museum for the first time and it was totally cool! It is a huge building (an old warehouse or factory) that has been completely redone on the inside with recycled materials from other factories that have been shut down. Apparently the builder/designer was collecting this stuff for decades! The stair spindles are old conveyor belt rollers and some of the newel posts are old acetylene welding tanks. There is a mass of rebar, tiled mosaic floors with dragons and turtles, tunnels and slides. The ceiling in one room is a wire mesh upon which shredded silk material has been sewn. There is a bank vault door, a human sized hamster wheel, and an indoor skate park. We did not even go into the aquarium or on the roof, there was too much to see in one day! Oh, and did I mention the indoor 10 story slide made from old chutes in a shoe factory? Awesome! I have added a new flicker bar on the right side of the blog and have included some of the better pictures.
One of the other highlights was a family gathering on Friday night before we left. One in which my husband and Chris, my cousin-in-law, spent the evening trying to get Chris’ four year old daughter to say, “Fork & Spoon”. Of course, since I have promised to spell things phonetically, it comes out “fokin spoon”, “fawkin spoon”, or even “fuckin spoon”. So every now and then you would hear one of the guys say, “hey Claire, what’s this?” while holding up the aforementioned cutlery. My friend Lisa and I have decided to name our first bar, “The Fork & Spoon” which would be right next door to our bakery, “That Place With the Stuff”.
