A "BAM" of a day!!

“BAM!!”……and the day was over with. Oh yeah……..it went just that fast for the 1st Lady and myself. We were up a bit earlier than usual…..went up to spend until after lunch with Mike, and then headed on to STL.

Our first stop was at the American Furniture and Appliance Center…..and did some looking and price-gathering on microwaves and dish washers. With those prices in hand, we head to Manchester, on the western edge of STL to the appliance store where we purchased our new gas range. Their main gimmick in advertising is that if they can’t beat another store’s price, they will give the customer a new Lexus. Wellllllll, of course they will beat the prices!!! As one of their
salesmen told us, they will give the appliance to a customer free before they have to give a new Lexus away…….and that makes perfectly good sense.

And soooo, guess what?? They lowered their price on a microwave to just below the price at the American store…….did I expect anything less? NO…..of course not. However, they were so manipulative about the way they “sold” it to us, that I believe we have decided not to buy from them, but to spend two extra dollars and purchase the microwave from the first store. Granted…..they DID have the best price on the gas range……$200 less than any other place, but this time…..well, it just sort of pissed us both off by the way they juggled the figures around!! Oh well…….

By that time, it was almost 7pm……and so we headed to the STL Bread Company, now known as Panera Bread, for a wholesome soup and sandwich. OMG, but do I ever love that place…….the bread is sooooo good, the soups are wonderful, and the salads are just almost perfect. And…..the wonderful thing is that they change their menu sooooo often and are continually adding new items for more variety in flavors and textures. SOOO GOOD!!!! If only they had some dark red medicine to help with my digestion!!!

After that, we headed west and out to the Moser Estate for the night. The two little ones were awake and waiting for us to get there……and so we had almost an hour with them entertaining us before they began to show overt signs of needing to go to bed.

Tomorrow, we don’t have to be back in the city until 3pm for a follow-up appointment with the 1st Lady’s oral surgeon. That shouldn’t take long at all…….I HOPE!!! And then we will head to Forest Park in the center of the city…….it is the original grounds for the 1904 World’s Fair, for those of you who are not familiar with STL. Saturday they will have the 17the annual STL Balloon Race………the BIG balloons with the little hanging baskets below them with people dangling out staring down at those of us who are staring up at them….haha! Tomorrow night they will “light” the balloons after dark……allowing the lights to shine through the balloons…..on the ground. Then the race begins Saturday afternoon….which we are planning to be there to see……our first time for this!

And so……..goes our “BAM!!” of a day! It flashed by in such a hurry……another day of Life for me has disappeared……don’t you wonder how many days there are left???? Guess it is not a good idea to have that information…….probably more than we need to know….right???? And, even without that knowledge,…….

Life IS Great……and I hope it is for all of you, also!!!!