Chillin' With Lauren in St Louis

Their plane was delayed an hour or so but Lauren and her parents turned up shortly after midday on Friday. After a nice lunch in the famous Blue Owl restaurant in Kimmswick. we heade to the Annheuser Busch brewery for the tour and the beer sampling afterwards.We also managed to get to the Schafly microbrewery for their last tour and tasting of 4 of their fine products (the theme of this trip continues Dave).On Saturday we started off at Grant's farm which had lots of animals that Lauren enjoyed.As the farm is owned by the brewery there was free beer on offer.While the  limit is supposed to be two serves a day, Matthew and I soon worked out that the same servers couldn't be on duty all day. Sure enough when we went back a little later there had been a change of shift. The next stop was a scupture park and by then the temp was 100 degrees and I could have done with some free beer.The final stop of the day was a wild bird park where we saw several bald eagles and snakes. We bought food from the supermarket for dinner back at our motel.
Today we are starting at the zoo. I hope to see the Chain of Rocks dam to find out if I could have paddled over it instead of battling my way up the canal to bypass it