St. Louis Trip

I have a quick 10 minutes to put this blog post together.  I’ve been wanting to share about my trip to St. Louis last week.  It’ll be short and sweet because it was 99.9% business!  I was in a hotel learning millions of amazing things to take back to work.

I have no time to watermark my pictures, so also… don’t steal them!  Thanks!

Quick Reminder: Don’t forget to link-up tomorrow with me and Meg for Bliss!

I left first thing Monday morning and leave it to me – I left all of my professional hanging clothes up in my closet…. so I had a minor panic attack once we hit I-55, but the situation was salvaged thanks to my calm co-worker who didn’t mind turning around and my awesome dad who met us half-way with my clothes (and my straightener, because I forgot that too).

We arrived in St. Louis around 5pm and I went and did a real quick run, then met some girls for dinner.  They were super sweet and I’m so glad I have them as a connection now.

Tuesday was packed with sessions and I got lots of great material.  Before dinner, I rushed out of the hotel to find the arch.  I couldn’t take a ride up, but I did manage to get a few pictures.  The sun was in the perfect spot to blind me during said pictures, so none of these pictures are fabulous of me, but the arch looked beautiful in all it’s glory!  Tuesday night was an amazing dinner at Lucas Grille.  They didn’t have a vegetarian option on our special menu, but I asked and they managed to throw together a delicious mushroom risotto (It amazes me how OKAY I am with eating mushrooms now!)  We also had 2 free drink tickets, so I had a white wine spritzer and a margarita.  Both were heavenly concoctions.

Wednesday was packed with more sessions and then we headed out of there around 2pm.

Enjoy the pictures.  Later in the week, I’ll share about the food from the trip.  Believe me, for a vegetarian, it’s completely worth saving for a post on it’s own!

Sun… all in my eyes!

I really enjoyed St. Louis!  It was beautiful (minus all the ridiculous construction down town).  The food was great, the company at the conference was amazing, and overall I had a wonderful first work trip with my company.