Best weekend ever

There are just some weekends that click and there are some weekends that just fall flat despite even the best efforts. Two weekends ago, Chuck and I were staring at each other with no motivation, 12 degrees outside and a serious case of cabin fever. This weekend was an entirely different story.


Friday night, Chuck and I met cousin Sarah to see the Oscar nominated animated shorts. Good films, overall entertaining, Wallace & Gromit are nominated and I am always a big fan of their shorts (even if they are the popular ones). After the show, we went to Barrister’s, a bar in Clayton that we have become regular patrons. Great night.

Saturday started with a beautiful warm morning. I am on a young professional board for Mayor Slay and we had a meeting downtown. I grabbed my essentials and headed to the Metrolink. The meeting was at Soldier’s Memorial (which I thought was just a park until a couple of weeks ago). What an amazing building! First, the outside is an impressive and massive building. We have all seen it a thousand times, I just have never looked at it. Our meeting was in the auditorium (it looked like a courtroom) on the second floor. I was just taken aback when I walked in. I felt like I had stepped back in time to 1964. I felt out of place without a pillbox hat, white gloves and not discussing segregation in the classroom. It was an adorable room. I tried to take pictures on my phone, but that was useless. St. Louis could make millions renting it out to movie theaters. Since I am currently obsessed with all things 60’s, I was just tickled to death sitting in the meeting. The meeting was pointless, but that’s not important to our story. Go to the second floor of Soldier’s Memorial, it’s just fun.

Saturday night was the night. We have been waiting for this: Bugs at the Symphony. We went to Herbie’s for a pre-show cocktail to make a whole night of it. I did not realize that Herbie’s has quite a drink menu. Not the tuity-fruity cosmo/apple martini’s drinks, wonderful delicious drinks with bitters, Benedictine and a flaming orange peels. Don’t ask me, I don’t make them, I just drink them. Amanda (my new best friend or as some people would call her, the bartender at Herbie’s) walked us through all the drinks let us taste all the different gins, scotches, and bourbons that went into the different drinks for different reasons. Yum. We decided to make dinner reservations after the show just to get another drink.

The show was so much fun. You know, but you forget how much goes into a Wil E. Coyote short. To see all the instruments doing their own thing to work together into an amazing complex piece, just humbled me. The conductor was great in explaining the history and importance of the pieces and composers. I struggled between paying attention to the cartoons and the musicians. I am really looking forward to going back and enjoying the symphony again.

After dinner: back to Herbie’s. Drinks were still very good. We split the rabbit pasta, which I loved. The conductor or the symphony came in after us and we heard him refusing the rabbit (because of Bugs), but I blamed him for ‘kill da wabbit! Kill da wabbit’ and we had to have the rabbit. Amanda even came by the dining room and check in on us while we were there too. Herbie’s has moved up to one of my favorite restaurants, very very impressed with the food, drinks and people.

Sunday we ran errands and bought a new sofa. Someone is coming by tonight to buy the old ones.

Life is good.