Florissant, MO

So this is our ONLY "sit down", where we are in one place for more than a few days, and it's been really lovely! Florissant is one of the little suburb towns of St. Louis, so there's been plenty to do. Going day by day worked well so I'll chronicle our adventures as such.

TUESDAY: Day of rest. After that crazy weekend it was nice to come back from the shows and crawl back into bed. We ventured out to find a St. Louis food: toasted ravioli. Super delicious, and someone has gotten it at every meal out since!

WEDNESDAY: Went to The Loop, a street of shopping and restaurants. Ate dinner at Blueberry Hill, one of Chuck Berry's favorite restaurants, and guess what?? He was playing there that night! Unfortunately we didn't sneak a peak, and the show was sold out, but the restaurant was very cool. Afterwards we went on the hunt for another St. Louis invention: Gooey butter cake. The bakery we were sent to (Gooey Louie's) was closed, but the grocery store saved us. Even the generic boxed one was amazing: like a cross between lemon bars and coffee cake. I may be addicted.

The sign outside Blueberry Hill. The marquee told us about Chuck Berry's show that night and the food was delish.

Gooey Butter cake. I won't even try to explain the goodness. I've eaten a LOT of it this week.

THURSDAY: Went to the zoo, which is free in St. Louis! We hiked around in the beautiful 74 degree weather, and it must have been feeding time because the animals were all out and playful.

Giraffes. They were all out and wandering around.

The chimps were all grooming. These two were super adorable.

Zebra! Every zebra has a unique stripe pattern, like a fingerprint.

FRIDAY: Three show day, so mostly rest again. I managed to get a little gym time and a nap between our morning and evening performances so that was good. I went back to the grocery store for more gooey butter deliciousness too. Guilty, I know. A little story from the stage: one of our rabbit puppets lost an eye!! They are big googly eyes, so it was easily replaced, but most of the show was done by a one eyed rabbit. Kelly tells a joke at one point, and it happened to be particularly ironic, "Why do you know carrots are good from you? Because you don't see many rabbits wearing glasses!!" Hah!

SATURDAY: Matinee, hung around, then went to see "The Social Network". Really great movie, must see it. Kinda blew my mind about all this airing of our laundry on the internet...like blogging...

SUNDAY: Did my real laundry-no socks, it was time- our final matinee, and off to Kansas City. The next three days are the journey to Northern California. It's Kansas City, MO to Cheyenne, WY; Cheyenne, WY to Elko, NV; Elko, NV to Modesto, CA. See you there!