A Day in St. Louis with two of my BFF'S

Myself and two of my bestest friends (and we three just have the MOST in common and have soooo much fun together) headed in to St. Louis today for some time of acting like tourists in our own home town. We think this may be the first of many times we do this cause it was such fun!! We had a bit of business to take care of first....then we headed to a St. Louis landmark, Crown Candy Company for lunch! Looking forward to eating a totally fattening and unhealthy lunch!! Which we did...and with gusto!

Click on any pic to make it bigger....the menu of wonderful home made ice cream stuff.....

Some of the homemade candy.....

Part of our lunch....a sundae with both caramel and hot fudge sauce and toasted candied pecans! And yes...we had a chocolate malt too!! And a sandwich.....but we did split everything! But I am STILL full!!

We then drove around neighborhoods of north St. Louis which I had never been in ....southside girl that I am! Saw some great old churches and other great architecture......

We then headed east to downtown. We had no idea where the new Culinaria grocery store which just opened up down there was....but we found it!! Went in and sampled some stuff....and bought some stuff and just soaked it in. All of us are fascinated by city living and think, if we had tons of money, would get a loft downtown! But since we don't have it (Barb...you didn't actually win the lottery...did you?) we may just go and stay in a downtown hotel for a night to experience what it is like!

Then we headed to the new City Garden...an area of sculpture, fountains, trees and plants which just opened up down there. We thought we saw it all but as we were driving away...saw that we missed about a third of it!! So need to go back.

We stopped for a drink at a sidewalk cafe and decided we need to go back and eat there sometime! It was a gorgeous day!! So fun and relaxing...so different then what we usually do. We really, really enjoyed being tourists for a day in St. Louis...and will do it again soon!