Friends

In my last post I explained that we had got in to St. Louis on a Friday and walked around downtown until it started to rain. The next morning we went to my friend Kate's wedding, and spent the following afternoon walking around. That evening, her reception was slated to start at 5:30 Since the reception was not at the hotel, Kate provided transportation to The Franklin Room about 2 miles away. I had thought this was provided by the hotel as a result of booking so many rooms. I think her group had about 30-40 rooms at the hotel, and there were at least 90 of us staying there. Later that evening I found out that Kate had booked the transportation both to and from the hotel. This turned to be very advantageous for everyone who attended.

I spent this last weekend in St. Louis, MO. My wife and I had two main purposes for making this trip. The first was to see my friend Kate get married. The other, was to have our season passes to Six Flags validated. We are taking a trip to Six Flags Fiesta Texas in June, and we needed to use our passes at St. Louis first otherwise they wouldn't work at other parks. Otherwise we had no real plans for the weekend. We had talked about taking a ride on the Gateway Arch or seeing a Cardinals game, but neither become a reality.

I received the sad news Sunday night (shortly after my last post ) that my team lead had passed away. I had worked very closely with her for the last couple of years and it came as a bit of a shock. It was hard to face work on Monday knowing that her smiling face would never occupy her cluttered desk again.

Her obituary can be viewed here.