Happy Birthday America

It has been a busy few days! Since it was a short week last week, it meant do the same amount of work in a shorter time period, which is always enjoyable! Needless to say, I was excited when Thursday rolled around. It was a fun weekend, here is a rundown:

Thursday, July 3

• First Friday of the holiday week! Yeah!
• Friends from Quincy came to visit
  
• John Mayer Concert at Verizon Amplitheatre
• Out to Venice Cafe to meet up with Mike and Erica
  

Friday, July 4

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Happy Birthday America!

• 2nd Friday of the week!
  
• A few of us spent a nice and relaxing day at Mike and Erica's house. There was enough food to feed a small army and plenty of drinks to wash it down with! It was the prefect day with amazing weather!
• That evening we headed down to the Cubs v Cards game at Busch Stadium. Mike and Justin were happy with the Cubs win, can't say the same for Erica and myself. Unfortunately, Mike ended up not feeling well and headed home for the night. He is feeling better but we were quite worried about him.
• Justin and I headed up to the 13th floor of our building to watch the fireworks.
  

Saturday, July 5

• Finally a day to sleep in!
  
• Lunch at Cielo at the Four Seasons
• If you have not been to the new Four Seasons - it is a must. The lobby is on the 8th floor of the building. We had lunch on the patio, which has the most amazing view in all of St. Louis. It didn't hurt that the food was fabulous as well! After lunch we enjoyed the view with a couple of cocktails and the beautiful weather!
• After a relaxing afternoon, we went home to figure out our evening plans.
• We decided to try Mihalis Chop House - it was a great choice! The food again was amazing. It was a good day for eating on our end!
  
• After dinner, we headed down to Clayton to Sasha's Wine Bar - again another fun watering hole in the city.
  
• Following dinner, H was pretty tired so he went to bed and I went and met up with some friends at the Flamingo Bowl on Washington Avenue.

Sunday, July 6

• We are still going!
• If you really know H and I, we don't really sleep in and usually have more energy than we know what to do with. We try very hard to sleep in and hang around the house, but it does not work very well.
• This Sunday morning, we tried again to lay around and watch TV, at about 10 am we got antsy and decided to get out of the house.
• Lunch at Canyon Cafe in Frontenac - yum!
• Shopping at some of my favorite places - Banana Republic, Saks, and J. Crew
• Movie time - SATC! I loved it even more the 2nd time! Can't wait for it to come out on DVD!
• More shopping.....
• Pedicure - it was needed after all the walking we did!
• Dinner at PF Chang's followed by some ice cream at Cold Stone
• Home!
  

All in all it was a very fun weekend, you can see the rest of our pictures here. It was nice to be home and not running all over the place.

Please keep in your thoughts the Shirley Family, our good friend Ryan's mom had a stroke last week and have been quite worried about all of them.