St. Louis is awesome!

No, seriously, I am like in love with St. Louis right now. but I will get to that.

Monday got my oil changed & my back wiper replaced! but it's still getting stuck, so that sucks? Lunch at the Crossroads Cafe, where I hadn't been in years... had delicious chicken salad on a croissant and lots of fresh fruit on the side :) I was pretty proud of myself after the weekend of Holiday World, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and movie popcorn...

THCB was FUN! I ♥ the 4th of July concert more than anything. Best piccolo music ever! and the Coopers are back, which is cool. We went 2 1/2 hours long for rehearsal and STILL didn't get through all the music... haha should be a fun concert.

Tuesday was work! So sleepy as always. Also met with our new landlord, signed the lease, & paid the deposit :) so it's official! I am so pumped! we move in 1 week from today!

Then I went skating that evening w/some derby girls. I am getting pretty good on turns, but I need to make my turns sharper & not as wide. Even learned some other tricks from Katie, one of the girls. I wanna get my own gear so I can practice more! We went to Wigwam, where I'd never been before. It was smaller & cheaper & less crowded, which I liked. I even did a couple laps on my own! and Katie cheered me on on my turning skills :) and although I did fall once... it was only cos I tripped going from the wood to the carpet on the place where you're not supposed to lol so it TOTALLY doesn't count.

Yesterday no work! We went to my house to watch the USA/Algeria game. It was pretty crazy. 0-0 for 91 minutes, including a goal we got taken away because of offsides (I sound like I know what I'm talking about, don't I? haha) and then we scored a goal! yay go us!

Yesterday evening we headed over to St. Louis to see Passion Pit (and Tokyo Police Club and Brahms). The street the place was on was adorable & had all these shops & restaurants! I wish we had had more time to look around. We were looking at places to eat and most of the menus looked pretty expensive, but we stopped in front of this Chinese place that was actually pretty reasonable, and the lady came outside & told us to come inside cos they're the number 1 Chinese restaurant lol we got free soup out of it! Which had a bunch of stuff in it I don't want to know what it was, but it was pretty tasty minus the cilantro. I hate cilantro. I got sesame chicken & Jacob got sweet & sour chicken, which were both delicious. Then we killed time by walking up & down the street. Found a cute furniture store & an awesome record store. Definitely need to go back there sometime. And the concert was pretty awesome. The under 21s were cut off from the balcony, so it was pretty awesome to go up there. We left at midnight since I had to be at work this morning. I was only 30 minutes late!

So I definitely want to go to St. Louis for vacation sometime. I haven't really been there since like 1997 or something like that, besides going to Six Flags in like 2001 or something. And I love that place! And I love the arch! So cool!

Now I think I am going to take my lunch & go visit Jack :) Rex game tonight!