Are You a Hick Chick?

Finding our way to St. Louis. Our First attraction today had to have been the lamest. i mean come on...With a name Devil's Elbow it has to be cool right? Wrong...just some lookout onto a bend in a river which we couldn't even see because trees were in the way.


We pretty much skipped breakfast knowing that one of our stops today would be the Missouri Hick Bar-B-Q. Turns out that one of my dad's and uncle's cousins is married to a guy that is a distant relative to the owner of this place. So i guess we have no relation and getting anything free would be out of the question....but the food looked promising.

To drink i had some local beer...Schlafly Pale Ale. It was pretty good and is brewed in St. Louis.

The lunch special was pulled pork so i got that with a side of german potato salad. hmmmmmm.

The pulled pork sandwich was just alright...wasn't amazing. It tasted kind of plain and i needed to add a lot of sauce. From smoky and sweet sauce, original, and spicy....they were all pretty good but they would do a number on me later..

i was still hungry after the sandwich so i orderd some blackberry cobbler. The first time i had cobbler it was peach on a boy scout camping trip in saudi made in a cast iron dutch oven. Doesn't get any better than that. Though i didn't have ice cream with it on the camping trip like i did this time at Hick's. All the waitresses wore t-shirst that read "Are You a Hick Chick?". Seriously...who would wear that?

We arrived in St. Louis pretty early and headed straight for the Gateway Arch parking lot.

We parked our bikes, went through a security check, and got tickets for a ride to the top of the arch. To get to the top of the 630 foot arch you ride in a little capsule that can only hold 5 people at a time...barely five people. If you do not do well in tight spaces than this is not the elevator for you.
It was pretty neat looking out onto the city from the top of the arch but you don't get the magnitude of the structure from the top of it as you do from looking at it from the ground.

While at the park there was a guy there working on a super U.S.A monument sand castle. What happens if it rains?

Blogger: Adventures of Lazy Son - Edit Post "Are You a Hick Chick?"We then headed back to the hotel and looked for a place to eat. Uncle Floyd reccomended Joe's Crab Shack, the hippest sea food restaurant. i've never been to one nor have i heard of this chain.

This place is pretty wild. The servers just randomly dance to the music and there are lights and junx too. For dinner i got the crab cakes...love crab cakes.
Almost love crab cakes just as much as i love cheese cake. i go the cheese cake sampler. i liked the plain cheese cake slice the most. The flan looking one was the second best and the chocolate one...eh..
Since we do not have a long ride to Springfield, IL tomorrow we'll be going back to the arch to see a movie, visit the museum, and stop at a couple more sites on the way out of town.