Since we’re leaving at the end of the month, Laura and I have been spending the past few weeks doing all the things that we’ve been meaning to do in St. Louis since we got here. Last night, we went to Sonic Drive-In. This is, admittedly, not an attraction particular to St. Louis, but they don’t have them in the Bay Area, and I’ve been wanting to try it ever since I first saw one while driving through Texas last summer. I suspected that the experience and the food would not live up to the expectation, and I was right. I was especially amused by the limeade: “Made with real limes” apparently means “artificially-flavored citrus soda to which we toss in a few hunks of real lime to satisfy truth-in-advertising laws without actually adding any real lime juice.”

Today, we were going to the zoo or perhaps go biking again, or visit Six Flags or the Transportation Museum. All of which require only that it not rain. Of course, it is raining. Bah.