Shopping with Sharon

Okay, today is Wednesday. We discovered that we all like shopping at op shops and so on the way for the big hostage exchange Sharon took us to Designer ReSale. I bought another pair of jeans, a vest and a handbag.

We met Kitty and Cathy and Mary at a shopping centre somewhere, and then all went to St Charles, a historic area of St Louis, for lunch. The main street there is full of interesting little shops with antiques, jewellery, etc. Lunch was at Trailhead Brewing Co. I had french onion soup with lots of melted cheese on top, and a chicken sandwich. Then we walked back. We saw lots of squirrels running around and Sharon and Kitty thought it was funny that I kept saying "oh, there's a squirrel" . They say squrle to ryme with Earl (Earl the Squirrel). There were lots of dead raccoons on the road, too - their equivalent of dead kangaroos, I guess - road kill.

Then Kitty took Cathy and Ros away, and the rest of us went to Cosco to buy a cake. It's a big wholesale shop where you have to be a member. We lost Mary and Betty because Betty was trying on a coat. On the way to Cosco we dropped into a Goodwill store. I bought some purple thermal underwear because Sharon said New York would be even colder than St Louis. We went to J C Penneys so Mary could buy her friend some underwear, and Sharon found a really cute handbag that Betty insisted on buying her. By this time it was 5 pm, and we were all shopped out.

We went to a local diner, Larrys, for dinner with some of Sharon's family. We met her mother, Dorothy, who's 86 and a real live wire. A friend of Sharon's, Mary-Lou was there too. Sharon's son and daughter and their partners and some of their children were there, so there were four generations all together, which was lovely to see. I had catfish and Budweiser and hush puppies for dinner.

Okay, I've got to get off the computer now so Betty and Mary can make contact with home. More tomorrow (but we'll be out all day being tourists and then going to rehearsal with the River Blenders, so it might be the next day before you hear about that).

Over and out