The View in St. Lou

Well, last weekend was definitely interesting.  Had we known that it was the weekend that all the St. Louis University, Washington University, and every other college around students were moving in, we would not have made the trip.  Ikea was sold out of almost everything, including all the furniture Sarah had selected for her apartment.  Her mattress was delivered on Saturday morning and now sits on the floor in her bedroom with her college graduation quilt on it.  Furniture will have to wait for another trip.  You couldn't buy paper towels anywhere, and there was a line to get in to Trader Joe's.  So, I guess you could say we decided to pray for guidance which lead us to this......... 

We got to walk around in the beautiful Cathedral Basilica and visit the museum in their basement.  There were no crowds here.  We spent a good portion of the weekend with Jacob, my nephew who is in St. Louis attending Concordia Seminary.  

Jacob kept pointing out all the religious symbology and I kept pointing out the great quilt patterns.

There are some great quilt borders on this ceiling!

After walking through the Cathedral, we picked up some Andy's Frozen Custard....DELICIOUS!

Then Jacob took us around the Concordia campus.  We couldn't go into any of the buildings, but we did peek in the windows of some.

It is a small, but beautiful campus.  He had finished and passed his Greek class on Thursday.  So, by tradition, everyone who passes Greek jumps in the fountain.  That event had occurred Friday morning before we arrived.  

Here is Jacob's fountain.   We went to church with him on Sunday morning and then packed up and headed out of St. Louis.  Sarah went straight back home, but David and I stopped at a couple of antique malls on the way home.  More on that in my next post!

Christi