A special trip to St Louis

Rhiannon and I are in St Louis for the weekend so that she can visit Principia as a possible schooling option for next year. We had a fun flight over - watched some movies and then played Battleship and also tried to sleep a bit - and even made a friend along the way! Pam is a nice lady who is also an American living in London who was also flying the same route as us to St Louis. The queue at the car rental place was really long, so the two of us chit chatted the whole time and swapped mobile numbers at the end so we can keep in touch. So nice :-)

Anyway, our first full day in St Louis was spent visiting the campus for a private tour from JP, then shopping at West County Mall for about 6 hours. We went a little crazy!

The next day (Sat) we met Annabel and went downtown to visit (and go up!) the Arch of St Louis - "Gateway to the West". It was really cold but bright today!

Later we walked to Laclede's Landing where we were able to locate the former site of our favorite haunt, "Hannegan's", which closed several years ago and is a sad, derelict building now (like the rest of Laclede's Landing).

We then drove to Delmar Loop and looked for thrift stores, then found a place to have lunch and meet up with Mr Lindsay (Annabel and my coach from Prin). Then we raced back to campus for Rhiannon to start her visiting weekend at 5pm. 

I don't have any photos of her evening on campus, nor of the following day which she spent on campus as well, nor really of today when she attended a full day of classes, but we did manage to get someone to take this one of us together in the lobby.

It has been a really special weekend here actually. Prin does feel like home in a way, since it is so familiar and there are plenty of names and faces still around that I remember from my days here as a student. We are visiting because Rhiannon is considering attending here instead of doing A-levels (Sixth Form) in England. It's kind of a crazy idea, but right now we are just exploring options.

Tonight we will fly to New York City for a few days of girl time!