St Louis weekend
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:54 pm
Well been to St. Louis so many times on trips like this, it gets harder and harder to find cool stuff to do but did a good job this time.
Got free hotel rooms in STL, so decided to take the 3 day weekend in the other MO city.
Left about noon from KC on Sat......I-70 isn't nearly as bad as everybody makes it out to be. Got stuck in some bad wreck that closed both sides of the interstate for like 9 hours...luckily jumped a frontage road and got around it. Pulled into STL, stayed at the Renaissance Suites by the convention center, jumped the metrolink and headed to Savvis for the hockey game. Didn't have tickets but we figured we could find some. Ate at Jacque's in the ground level of the new Sheraton....must be the hot spot before and after Blues games. Found tickets from a scalper 5 minutes before the drop, face value $25 tickets, first row. Very happy with the seats.....we both decided hockey isn't our favorite sport but still fun. Back to hotel, too cold to go out.
Sunday went to the Cathedral Basillica in CWE. Even if you aren't catholic, you must see this building if you never have. Simply amazing. Been there one other time and still amazed at the size and beauty of it. Then drove/walked around CWE (too cold to walk long) and couldn't find any place to eat (this is an theme when we go to STL, which is why I always ask people for places to eat), saw a few places but nothing we were looking for (many brunches and Pub type food). Picked up a Riverfront times and decided to go to Schafly's brewery and eat there....like on 20th & Locust. Good food. Finished off the beer sampler which was also good. Wanted to get out and take some pictures but too cold for my tagalong and it was snowing so back to the hotel to watch the playoff games.
That night went to S.N.O.W. (Sunday Night On Washington) which was a collection of clubs (8 of them) who had free cover...kind of like a First Friday deal for clubs...very cool deal. Guess this is the 2nd one they've done. All clubs pretty crowded which was awesome with all the cold weather. All the clubs were much smaller than I expected from their buildings but very cool to have all those clubs (mostly dance clubs) grouped together like that. Tangerine (only non-dance club) mixed the best drinks out of all of them we went to. We went to Isis, Rue13, Velvet, Tangerine, & Deep Six. Called it a night at about 2 I think.
This morning (ok LATE morning) got up and headed over to Clayton where we thought we'd go shop for a bit....she wanted to. Drove around Clayton, again finding nowhere to eat....ended up at Applebees Skipped shopping, thought we'd try to find that new Mills mall but both just wanted to get home, so here we are.
No pics taken except for a couple at the clubs......great trip overall. Got to see my first NHL game and a bunch of new clubs.....still missing the good restaurants (granted we skipped the Hill which we knew had great grub).
Thanks neighbors, good trip.
Got free hotel rooms in STL, so decided to take the 3 day weekend in the other MO city.
Left about noon from KC on Sat......I-70 isn't nearly as bad as everybody makes it out to be. Got stuck in some bad wreck that closed both sides of the interstate for like 9 hours...luckily jumped a frontage road and got around it. Pulled into STL, stayed at the Renaissance Suites by the convention center, jumped the metrolink and headed to Savvis for the hockey game. Didn't have tickets but we figured we could find some. Ate at Jacque's in the ground level of the new Sheraton....must be the hot spot before and after Blues games. Found tickets from a scalper 5 minutes before the drop, face value $25 tickets, first row. Very happy with the seats.....we both decided hockey isn't our favorite sport but still fun. Back to hotel, too cold to go out.
Sunday went to the Cathedral Basillica in CWE. Even if you aren't catholic, you must see this building if you never have. Simply amazing. Been there one other time and still amazed at the size and beauty of it. Then drove/walked around CWE (too cold to walk long) and couldn't find any place to eat (this is an theme when we go to STL, which is why I always ask people for places to eat), saw a few places but nothing we were looking for (many brunches and Pub type food). Picked up a Riverfront times and decided to go to Schafly's brewery and eat there....like on 20th & Locust. Good food. Finished off the beer sampler which was also good. Wanted to get out and take some pictures but too cold for my tagalong and it was snowing so back to the hotel to watch the playoff games.
That night went to S.N.O.W. (Sunday Night On Washington) which was a collection of clubs (8 of them) who had free cover...kind of like a First Friday deal for clubs...very cool deal. Guess this is the 2nd one they've done. All clubs pretty crowded which was awesome with all the cold weather. All the clubs were much smaller than I expected from their buildings but very cool to have all those clubs (mostly dance clubs) grouped together like that. Tangerine (only non-dance club) mixed the best drinks out of all of them we went to. We went to Isis, Rue13, Velvet, Tangerine, & Deep Six. Called it a night at about 2 I think.
This morning (ok LATE morning) got up and headed over to Clayton where we thought we'd go shop for a bit....she wanted to. Drove around Clayton, again finding nowhere to eat....ended up at Applebees Skipped shopping, thought we'd try to find that new Mills mall but both just wanted to get home, so here we are.
No pics taken except for a couple at the clubs......great trip overall. Got to see my first NHL game and a bunch of new clubs.....still missing the good restaurants (granted we skipped the Hill which we knew had great grub).
Thanks neighbors, good trip.