| Chuck and Lois's Great Big 6 Year Anniversary
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| Sat Nov 9 |
Got to Criag's place but no Craig ??? |
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10:00 AM |
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Called Craig @ Linda's, surprise, surprise. |
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Craig back home and we load up for the ride to YVR. |
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10:45 AM |
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11:00 AM |
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Checked in, waited for the plane, grabbed a bite. |
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11:45 AM |
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12:55 PM |
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And we were off... No harm no foul... |
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But we forgot to leave Craig the car keys? |
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Oh well... |
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Delta #5687 |
YVR |
12:55 PM |
MSP |
6:15 PM |
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Wait for next plane and get more food |
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6:15 PM |
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7:15 PM |
CST |
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Delta #2317 |
MSP |
7:35 PM |
STL |
8:45 PM |
CST |
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More snacks in flight (50 people so we got geat seats next to
exit... |
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what a life :+). And we
got our bags in nothing flat too... |
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9:00 PM |
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Caught a shuttle to Drury Inn Airport -
St. Louis, MO and checked in... |
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9:15 PM |
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9:30 PM |
CST |
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https://www.druryhotels.com/propertyoverview.aspx?property=0075 |
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10490 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO |
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314-423-7700 |
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Lois starts looking for Vegiterian places to eat, Chuck builds
this |
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10:30 PM |
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web page (for fun)... |
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Lois liked the Drury Inn so much she decided that we must do
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U.S. trips where we can stay at these Inns more often... Chuck
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OK (never argue with the wife ;^) |
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| Sun Nov 10 |
Everything started out fine today, good breakfast at the Inn,
etc. |
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8:00 AM |
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9:30 AM |
CST |
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Caught the shuttle back to the airport and then the Metro
train after |
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9:30 AM |
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10:00 AM |
CST |
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buying our day passes at $7.50ea... Piece of cake. |
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Rode the train to Forest Park Metrolink
Station and walked to the |
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10:00 AM |
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10:30 AM |
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Missouri History Museum (free). |
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10:30 AM |
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12:00 PM |
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http://mohistory.org/ |
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| 5700
Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis, MO |
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Took in several interesting exhibits (see
Monday's log for photos) and then |
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decided it was too nice a day to ride the shuttle. Instead we walked through |
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the park and took a bunch of photos on the way to the... |
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Saint Louis Art Museum (also free). |
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http://www.slam.org/ |
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One Fine Arts Dr, St. Louis, MO |
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We skipped lunch and decided to wait for the park shuttle to
get us |
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to the Science Center next. However, after a
long wait we finally |
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decided it was not in the cards. We found out later, after walking |
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a couple miles to the Planetariuim and Science Center, that the park |
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shuttle stops running after Halloween (Oct 31). So, we got more |
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exercise than we bargained for. But we finally got there... |
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Saint Louis Science Center (also free). |
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2:45 PM |
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3:30 PM |
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http://www.slsc.org/ |
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5050 Oakland Ave., St. Louis, MO |
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We found out the Science Center was mostly for kids so decided to |
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head downtown to see the St. Louis Arch instead. Rumor had it
that |
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it might rain on Monday anyway and we wanted to get some
decent photos. |
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We walked to the Central West End
Metrolink Station and hopped the |
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train downtown to the Laclede's Landing
Metrolink Station just north |
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of the Gateway Arch Park. |
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3:30 PM |
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4:00 PM |
CST |
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After taking more photos from outside, we quickly bought some
tickets |
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4:00 PM |
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5:00 PM |
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to ride 1 of the 8 lifts up to the top were the view was
AWESOME thanks |
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to the beautiful, sunny day we had at our beck and call (see Monday's log |
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for photos). |
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After that Lois was starving and Chuck was ready to sit down
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chance he could get (sore feet). So we hopped back on the Metro |
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and headed west 20 minutes to the Delmar
Loop Metrolink Station |
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5:00 PM |
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5:30 PM |
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and then walked 6 very long blocks to a Lebanease restaurant
named |
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Ranoush (4.5
stars) which is on Delmar Blvd and is also called
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"Walk of Fame"; apparently because the names of many
famous people cast |
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into stars have been embedded in the sidewalks in that
neighborhood. |
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Delmar Blvd reminded us of Robson Street in Vancouver, BC. |
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After having a GREAT dinner, we, once again, walked back to
the Metro |
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5:45 PM |
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7:00 PM |
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and rode the train (along with a bunch of punk kids selling
dope to each other) |
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7:15 PM |
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8:00 PM |
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back to the Lambert Airport #1 Metrolink
Station.
And also, once again, we |
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caught the shuttle to the motel... happy to be back, safe and
sound. |
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| Mon Nov 11 |
They say a picture speaks 1000 words. Luckily we have only collected about |
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140 photos by the end of day on Monday.
Today we toured most of the |
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downtown St Louis points of interest and then capped it off with yet |
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another great meal at The Mango (5 stars)
before heading back to the Inn. |
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To view the day 1 and 2 photos
simply click on each of the links below which |
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will get you to three photos web pages; one set for Sunday, one set
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Monday and one set for extra credit. They may take a while to load. Once |
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they are done loading just scroll
down to view all the photos for each day... |
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http://cjessup.tmi-america.com/CJessup/CHUCK-LOIS/Nov10-Aniv-Trip-2013.htm |
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http://cjessup.tmi-america.com/CJessup/CHUCK-LOIS/Nov11-Aniv-Trip-2013.htm |
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http://cjessup.tmi-america.com/CJessup/CHUCK-LOIS/US-Hist-1801-1900.htm |
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| Tue Nov 12 |
On Tuesday we visited "The Hill" west of St Louis
and got some lunch after |
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renting a car near the airport.
Then we headed to Bowling Green, KY. |
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After a couple wrong turns we finally got there, checked in to the |
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Drury Inn - Bowling Green, KY and had
dinner at the Outback next door. |
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Lois crashed and burned after planning what we would do on Wednesday. |
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| Wed Nov 13 |
On Wednesday we visited "Mammoth
Cave National Park" north of Bowling |
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10:00 AM |
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5:30 PM |
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Green, KY... |
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https://www.nps.gov/maca/planyourvisit/basicinfo.htm |
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Once again a picture speaks 1000 words.
In this case 60 more photos can |
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be viewed by clicking here... |
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http://cjessup.tmi-america.com/CJessup/CHUCK-LOIS/Nov13-Aniv-Trip-2013.htm |
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| Thu Nov 14 |
On Thursday we had a lot of ground to cover so we got moving
early that day. |
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Once again we headed north of Bowling Green, KY to check out
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National Corvette Museum and the Corvette assembly plant tour... |
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http://www.corvettemuseum.org |
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https://www.corvettemuseum.org/plant-tours/ |
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Once again a picture speaks 1000 words.
In this case 50 more photos can |
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be viewed by clicking here... |
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http://cjessup.tmi-america.com/CJessup/CHUCK-LOIS/Nov14-Aniv-Trip-2013.htm |
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Note: They do not allow any cameras or
video recording inside the plant |
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during the tour. Thus no photos of
the best part of the day. But, the
tour |
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was worth the drive to Bowling Green and was quite informative. And |
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GM does, in fact, employ 900 people there along with a large collection |
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of robots and other interesting technology. |
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After taking in all the Corvette sights we then drove to Evansville, IL
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we checked into our digs there and changed into better evening
attire. |
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Then we and went to Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano for our 6th annual |
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anniversary dinner... |
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http://www.biaggis.com |
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Chuck feasted on LOBSTER CORN CHOWDER and FETTUCCINI WITH LOBSTER |
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while Lois tried to consume her QUATTRO FORMAGGI TORTELLONI. We |
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topped off our meals with PROSECCO, ZONIN, ITALY to lift our spirits and |
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we split a couple CANNOLI pastery shells and a piece of LEMON TOWER |
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CAKE for desert... with coffee of course.
Ummm ummm good as they say. |
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| Fri Nov 15 |
On Friday we drove the rental car back to St Louis and ditched
it by noon, |
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hopped the shuttle to the airport and caught our Delta flight back home. |
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On final approach to Vancouver
runway 26 left apparently the weather was |
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not very cooperative as the pilot abborted the landing and did a go around! |
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That had to be the only major issue we came across on our entire trip
plan. |
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I guess Chuck should have flown the
plane along with driving the rental car? |
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https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=49.185133,-123.162242&spn=0.004292,0.010504&t=h&z=17 |
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Thanks to Tom we managed to get back to Craig's place, get the car and |
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make it over the border to Birch Bay just before the Nexus lane was
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for the night... we were the last ones through Nexus as it turned out. |
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Home sweet home again, safe and sound. Stay tuned for next Nov, 2014. |
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