St. Louis, The Putting Our Heads Through Stuff Edition

Everyone knows sticking our heads through stuff is kind of a thing.  It's so much a thing that I felt I must make a separate St. Louis trip post just for those times we stuck our heads through some things. This first one is courtesy of the Delmar Loop.

This next one is courtesy of Grant's Farm.

Also, there was this little girl at Grant's Farm who asked us to take her picture too.

So we did.

Finally, I am going to go ahead and consider this sticking our heads through stuff too.

Bird Nicci forever!

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We Love St. Louis

Boy, do we love St. Louis.  There's just so much to do and we have so much ridiculous fun when we go there.  We took a trip, quite a few months back now, to visit my mom and brother and his girlfriend.

The newest rage among the Cobbs is Grant's Farm, which none of us had been to before this trip. First of all, they had Halloween decorations up. (Yep. That's how long it's been since I've updated this blog...)

Second, they had baby goat feeding.

Like, from baby bottles.

Third, they had this crazy bird feeding experience as well.

They also have beer (it's owned by Anheuser-Busch) and food and clydesdales and tons of other animals and a tram. Oh, gosh, it's basically the most fun place ever. Don't know why we never made it there in the past.

Speaking of animals, we (of course!) went to the St. Louis Zoo.

Their famed penguin exhibit was closed due to some jerk film crew basically breaking it (jerks!), but we did get to see the outdoor pengus,

and their super-nice seal and sea lion exhibit, and about a million other animals.

We also stopped by some of our old haunts just to see what was new (so much!)

Our first apartment together!

Probably the most amazing thing we did while we were there was see Jake Shimabukuro in concert! It was incredible.

Also, my mom got locked out of her hotel room a bunch of times. It's not really noteworthy, I just like this picture.

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Penguin Overload

Eddy and I recently did a quick trip to St. Louis.  We hung out with my family, sure.  We also ate all of our familiar and favorite things (except Ted Drewes, which was closed.  Curse them!  Despite the fact that it is February, I need frozen custard.  I need it!)  Here's Eddy at Bluehill, where we used to walk for dinner or drinks any old time we didn't feel like cooking when we were in grad school.



Which was basically all the time.  True story.

But *most* importantly, we were able to spend a day at the zoo. They have the best penguin exhibit. I mean, really, the best. And I would know.



That's right. Eddy bought me a penguin hat. As if I am a child. I am comfortable with that. We also visited our prairie dog friends.



And there is an amazing, brand new sea lion exhibit since the last time we visited.





The snow leopards did amazingly cat-like things.



Here's a picture of professor Joe and professor Eddy.



And did I mention we saw the penguins?





Not once, but twice.





Penguins + Nicci 4ever.

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Animaliversary

Without realizing it, we basically spent our whole anniversary weekend staring at animals. The first priority was the penguin exhibit at the fabulous St. Louis Zoo.

We probably saw some other animals as well, but I mean. Come on. Penguins.

Day two was ostensibly animal free. We went to the City Museum, a menagerie of rusty metal and dangerously tight spaces.

But we had to break up that long day of climbing around with a trip to the aquarium that lives on the second floor of the City Museum. This place has fish. I swear it does. But it also has an amazing array of non-fish, most of which you can pet.

The most awesome thing we saw was the sloth feeding. I <3 sloths. In a serious way. Sloths are the new penguins.

So, apparently, we go on a lot of trips where we spend our time staring at animals. Who knew?

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Our Favorite STL Haunts

Recently, I whisked Eddy away to St. Louis to celebrate our anniversary. While there, we went to the same ole places. Well, the same ole places that we loved when we lived there. Here's our old apartment.

When we visit STL, we always stay about a block away from our old place, so we always swing by. Speaking of our old hood, we hung out in the loop of course.

We ate at Blueberry Hill not once,

but twice.

Even though it was freaking freezing, we also made it out to Ted Drewes.

And we couldn't call it a trip to St. Lou unless without a trip to Mangia, where we were married.

Stay tuned because we did actually do more than just eat things on this trip.

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