On Saturday, Ryan and I felt like going to St. Louis and having a bit of an adventure. Our original idea was to go down by the riverfront and enjoy the St. Patrick's Day festivities. (My first weekend up here, two years ago, we spent the evening doing just that.) However, the more we thought about the idea of hanging out with drunken frat boys and sorority girls, the less it sounded like fun. Ryan discovered an area of town called "The Loop", (which, ironically enough, is near a college campus. Oh well.) It reminds me a lot of Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, NC, not far from where I grew up. It was an interesting mix of tattoo parlors and Starbucks, of novelty stores and jazz clubs. We even passed a group of people dancing and playing drums in a Hindu festival celebrating Krishna.
The night was still pretty early, so we decided, spur of the moment, to go to a movie at the "artsy-fartsy" movie theater there. (We don't have any of those in Mt. Vernon!) The theater itself was a beautiful, historic building, with neat decorations on the ceiling and walls.
We watched a really funny movie called "Military Intelligence and You!", the tag line being, "The military training movie never made." It was a tongue-in-cheek WWII training video, with lots of sarcastic references to the current war. Normally I get easily irritated with anti-war stuff, but this movie was done in such a funny way, it made it much more palatable. Ryan and I were laughing out loud the whole time.
After that, we went to dinner at a local restaurant called "Riddle's Penultimate Cafe". We had a bottle of wine and a fruit and cheese plate, and listened to a jazz band that played. We didn't get home until midnight, after our hour and a half drive home, but all in all, it was fun to do something out of the ordinary.
The night was still pretty early, so we decided, spur of the moment, to go to a movie at the "artsy-fartsy" movie theater there. (We don't have any of those in Mt. Vernon!) The theater itself was a beautiful, historic building, with neat decorations on the ceiling and walls.We watched a really funny movie called "Military Intelligence and You!", the tag line being, "The military training movie never made." It was a tongue-in-cheek WWII training video, with lots of sarcastic references to the current war. Normally I get easily irritated with anti-war stuff, but this movie was done in such a funny way, it made it much more palatable. Ryan and I were laughing out loud the whole time.
After that, we went to dinner at a local restaurant called "Riddle's Penultimate Cafe". We had a bottle of wine and a fruit and cheese plate, and listened to a jazz band that played. We didn't get home until midnight, after our hour and a half drive home, but all in all, it was fun to do something out of the ordinary.
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