Sabbatical Day 8 | June 4, 2011
Branson, MO --> St. Louis, MO
Last night my computer inherited a virus as we were trying to plan our day today. Each night, we have been plugging in the addresses into the GPS before going to bed and we were trying to decide if we wanted to go to the local animal park where you can drive through to see the animals. It sounded really cool and I thought that you could see big cats like lions and tigers on the tour so we pulled up the website to check it out before deciding. Yeah. So their website was infected. Yay. And of course I didn't have any protection on my computer *GRR*. So, Matt tried to fix it the best that we could but he gave in and we tried Best Buy. The first one told him that it was going to be expensive and that it was going to take 5 to 7 days to fix based on their workload. Matt popped. We left. We tried another Best Buy but he essentially told us the same
thing. However, he was also kind enough to share with us what our other options were, which I appreciated. We'll try it. Otherwise, I will have to wait until I get to Vermont and get it worked on there since I can stay there longer.... hopefully... lol I am sure my dad won't mind... too much.... lol
After the hunt for Best Buy, we got on with our day which actually included some traveling down Route 66. First was the World's Largest Rocking Chair in Fanning, MO. It stands over 42 feet tall on rockers that are 31.5 feet long and weigh a ton apiece. Apparently in August one of the local firetrucks stops by with an aerial bucket and will hoist people up so they can actually sit in the chair. Lucky.
Branson, MO --> St. Louis, MO
Last night my computer inherited a virus as we were trying to plan our day today. Each night, we have been plugging in the addresses into the GPS before going to bed and we were trying to decide if we wanted to go to the local animal park where you can drive through to see the animals. It sounded really cool and I thought that you could see big cats like lions and tigers on the tour so we pulled up the website to check it out before deciding. Yeah. So their website was infected. Yay. And of course I didn't have any protection on my computer *GRR*. So, Matt tried to fix it the best that we could but he gave in and we tried Best Buy. The first one told him that it was going to be expensive and that it was going to take 5 to 7 days to fix based on their workload. Matt popped. We left. We tried another Best Buy but he essentially told us the same
thing. However, he was also kind enough to share with us what our other options were, which I appreciated. We'll try it. Otherwise, I will have to wait until I get to Vermont and get it worked on there since I can stay there longer.... hopefully... lol I am sure my dad won't mind... too much.... lol
After the hunt for Best Buy, we got on with our day which actually included some traveling down Route 66. First was the World's Largest Rocking Chair in Fanning, MO. It stands over 42 feet tall on rockers that are 31.5 feet long and weigh a ton apiece. Apparently in August one of the local firetrucks stops by with an aerial bucket and will hoist people up so they can actually sit in the chair. Lucky.
From the rocking chair, we went to Bob's Gasoline Alley in Cuba, MO. While it was kind of fun to see all the old gas station signs and some old pumps that he collected, I was kind of disappointed by the 'Keep Out' signs that he also had up. It would have been really nice to be able to walk around and see each sign up close instead of standing along the side of the road and trusting that my zoom lens would allow me to get some good shots because apparently he has upwards of 300 different signs. After taking a few pictures, we headed back to the freeway and then stopped for lunch in Cuba. After eating we then went to find 'Mural City' which afforded us the opportunity to drive down Route 66 again. After some searching, we found 'Mural City' on Washington St. and it was nice - they painted murals on the side of some of the local businesses
- but I think that ultimately it was skip worthy. We drove by a few but then decided to continue on our way. We didn't really stop to look at many or to take many pictures.
On our way to St. Louis, we found the Hot/Cold water towers in St. Clair. They were visible from the freeway so I took a picture while Matt drove. Matt was pretty disappointed in them because they basically just painted 'Hot' and 'Cold' on two of the towers. He thought that they would do more with them like paint one red and one blue or something. It was fun to see either way. And then we were in St. Louis where we got to see a few different roadside attractions!
First we stopped at Laumeier Sculpture Park. Of notable mention, the cat sculpture that greeted us when we got out of the car. It was super fun!! I loved all the colors and the inside was lined with mirror pieces so it was sparkly and bright! Then, the eye. It is literally a big eyeball that just stares out across the field. It was neat! Freaky - but neat! Then we decided to walk around a bit and we found a sculpture of an egg.... I totally thought Lady Gaga was going to pop out of it and say "Ha! Gotcha!!" LOL and a few other modernistic pieces. From here we went to find the large shoe sculpture made out of ... shoes.
- but I think that ultimately it was skip worthy. We drove by a few but then decided to continue on our way. We didn't really stop to look at many or to take many pictures.
On our way to St. Louis, we found the Hot/Cold water towers in St. Clair. They were visible from the freeway so I took a picture while Matt drove. Matt was pretty disappointed in them because they basically just painted 'Hot' and 'Cold' on two of the towers. He thought that they would do more with them like paint one red and one blue or something. It was fun to see either way. And then we were in St. Louis where we got to see a few different roadside attractions!
First we stopped at Laumeier Sculpture Park. Of notable mention, the cat sculpture that greeted us when we got out of the car. It was super fun!! I loved all the colors and the inside was lined with mirror pieces so it was sparkly and bright! Then, the eye. It is literally a big eyeball that just stares out across the field. It was neat! Freaky - but neat! Then we decided to walk around a bit and we found a sculpture of an egg.... I totally thought Lady Gaga was going to pop out of it and say "Ha! Gotcha!!" LOL and a few other modernistic pieces. From here we went to find the large shoe sculpture made out of ... shoes.
On our way there, we actually passed by the St. Louis Arch so I took some pictures of that. We didn't go up in it though. It was magnificent though! We also stopped at the concrete turtle park which is a park of .. concrete turtles. They were HUGE and they are set up along a path so that you could climb up on them if you wanted to. Domo had great fun! Then, we found the shoe in Clayton, MO. It is a huge sculpture of a shoe that is 10 feet tall and made entirely out of high heel shoes that were all painted gray with silver glitter. It was right in front of the Brown Shoe Company's executive offices (Buster Brown's, etc). Matt says that the shoe sculpture was actually there from a different company but when they sold the building and Brown moved in, they decided to keep the sculpture. We took lots of fun pictures and then headed to our KOA which we actually arrived to early enough for me to hop in the pool! It was glorious!!!!!!!!!
I thought that I had only been in the pool for an hour but it turned out to be more like an hour and a half to two hours. Heh Heh. I rinsed off and then we went in search for dinner. One of the nice things about the south is that restaurants seem to be open pretty late. We found this little Italian restaurant (Ravanelli's) and at first, we kind of had our reservations because it was in a strip mall. However, once our food arrived, it was pure heaven and I am confident that my husband would eat there every night if we lived closer. It was THAT good! As we had walked in, I noticed that they had homemade pies (.:sigh:. I know. I know. I am SOOOO going back on Weight Watchers when we get back!!) and I totally needed to try one but I was soooo full from my dinner so I got a piece to go. I want to say that it was marionberry but I can't recall.
I thought that I had only been in the pool for an hour but it turned out to be more like an hour and a half to two hours. Heh Heh. I rinsed off and then we went in search for dinner. One of the nice things about the south is that restaurants seem to be open pretty late. We found this little Italian restaurant (Ravanelli's) and at first, we kind of had our reservations because it was in a strip mall. However, once our food arrived, it was pure heaven and I am confident that my husband would eat there every night if we lived closer. It was THAT good! As we had walked in, I noticed that they had homemade pies (.:sigh:. I know. I know. I am SOOOO going back on Weight Watchers when we get back!!) and I totally needed to try one but I was soooo full from my dinner so I got a piece to go. I want to say that it was marionberry but I can't recall.
Either way, it is totally breakfast in the morning!! On that note, I am stealing a bite and then going to sleeps! Night!!
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