A few days in St. Louis

We'd planned to leave Chicago around 2, and since it takes about, what, five hours? to get back to St. Louis, we ended up leaving around 2:30 and getting into St.Louis around seven hours later. Saori had an interview the following day so she wanted to get back early, so we ended up swinging by the school so she could print out her portfolio and resumes.

The next day, Saori and I both had interviews in the morning for different jobs. Mine was at a very small firm, a five person office which focused on residential building. Let's call them Domus. Since the office was so small, I got interviewed by everyone in the office at the conference table. They seemed impressed, but they let me know that they were looking at other applicants as well and would let me know sometime next week. It would be great to spend the summer in St.Louis, honestly.

Then we all went to go eat ribs at Pappy's and had the shortest wait time ever- maybe less than 30 minutes to get to the order window. Good stuff. We went back home and crashed into a food coma again. Tay and I went out for a drink at sunset at Moonrise bar, and then swung by to grab Saori to take her out to Fox and Hound pub for a drink.

Saturday, we got up late, and hit the outlet mall again since Tay needed pants. Saori also picked up a really pretty sun dress.

This morning, we loaded up the car for our road trip, said goodbye to suki, moved my car out of the garage, and tay tried to move his car back into the garage....and nothing. Something screwed up with the starter system. The lights come on, but the key turns and there's one click from the engine and nothing happens. Tay had AAA so he called them up and they quickly sent a guy out with a battery. He took a look and decided that we'd need to get it towed to a mechanic. The problem, as we quickly discovered, is that all the mechanics were closed for the weekend, and furthermore, would remain closed for monday (memorial day). So we figured Tay could borrow my car until the following weekend to get back and take car of the car stuff. In the meanwhile, we still have a friend's car we're watching for the break.

Anyway, we hit the road around noon, stopped for Braums (finally! Missed it!) and made it to Ponca City, Oklahoma.