St. Louis

Hey everybody! The project is in the middle of the 7th week which means in a week and a half i'll be home. WOOO! We've got a lot to do still, but i am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Last weekend the team went down to St. Louis for a couple days. The team visited Washington University at St. Louis, taking a tour of the facility and visiting with one of the engineering professors. We ate dinner along the cobble stone streets at a restaurant in Laclede's Landing.

After dinner we walked along the levee (Mississippi river) to a free Better Than Ezra concert under the Arch. The concert was great as well as the huge fireworks show afterwards. After the concert we waded our way through people back to the landing where we ended up in a comedy club. A nationally acclaimed comedian, Jim Wiggins, and a few other comedians entertained us for a good 2 hours. Wiggins, a burnt out hippie wore a hat that said "did you poop today?", picked on Blake and Tom like it was his job. I don't think i've laughed so hard in my life.

The next day the team went to the Anheuser-Busch Brewery tour. We took pictures with the Clydesdale horses, went through he amazing facility, and even sampled some 6 day old beer. After lunch at some Italian restaurant, we made our way back down to the landing to attempt to go on a tour of the Arch. By the time we reached the Arch, everyone was pretty tired of one another, cranky, sweaty, tired, you name it. The heat and the humidity were unbearable, the worst i've ever been in. So after ditching the girls at the Arch, not taking the tour, we drove home to our little air conditioned dorm rooms.

All in all, the weekend was great. We got to see a new place, see some historic buildings, hear a free concert, laugh at the expensive of your friends, and drink free beer... what more could you want? The best part was that because we made a graduate school visit to Washington university, NSF paid for the gas!