Two weeks ago we had our Fall Break (monday, tuesday no school) and while 99% of the campus takes this long weekend to go back home, Angie and I stayed. Even though the campus was kind of eerie and dead, not to mention there was absolutely NO food service all weekend, we made the most of all the free time and soaked up St. Louis. Friday as the rest of the students were fleeing campus, we took the metro down to the arch. It was such a beautiful day...what was not so pretty was the line to go up in the arch that stretched all the way to Illinois. Ok, so maybe that is an exaggeration, but there was a good 3 hour wait to catch a tram to the top of the arch. So instead we took a nap on the grassy hill right under the arch, then headed back to campus.
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| my favorite picture of us so far :)! |
That night we hung out with our neighbors before they departed for home early saturday morning. Saturday was a 'blah' day, spent mostly on catching up on sleep, but sunday was my first trip to the St. Louis Zoo!!! Again, we took the metro down to Forest Park and hiked all the way across it to the zoo. It was so cool! ALL the animals were so active and playful. I got this awesome video of orangatangs messing around.
But my favorite part was the gorillas. The eldest one came up the the viewing glass and banged on it two different times! It made me jump both times, but the zoologist was telling us how he does it to get a reaction out of the audience. She was very knowledgable about all the animals.
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| Gorilla |
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| Giraffe! |
Needless to say, we were exhausted after our zoo trip and slept well that night! Monday afternoon we had a delicious lunch at Pappy's (as seen in the food network's Man vs. Food) and caught up on homework. Tuesday people finally started slowly returning back to school and we shared a joyful reunion with our neighbors, Hannah and Alex. We had been so lonely without them!!
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| mmm, pulled pork sandwich with potato salad and apple sauce! |
Later that week we returned to Forest Park for a study session...that ended up being one big relaxing nap on Art Hill. The trees looked so pretty, some of the leaves are starting to change colors and we had fun stepping on all the fallen leaves and hearing them crunch.
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| workin' hard...or hardly workin'? |
The warmer weather is now gone, replaced with temperatures in the 30's and 40's but boy, when the weather is good here, it's beautiful!
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