Another weekend update

I know this is a few days late, but at least I bother to pull myself away from online window shopping to update on what we did over the weekend. Nothing spectacular, since we had visited most of the interesting places.

Friday was the 1st time I officially joined the Wives' Club on an outing, and that outing was of course a trip to the shopping mall! It was my 1st visit to Chesterfield Mall and a very pleasant one. Especially when I managed to grab a DKNY blouse for no more than $15! This mall was much crowded than the few we visited over the past few weeks, but still alot more subdued than the crowd in Singapore. It houses most of the major brands and 2 large department stores, Macy's and Dillard's, and best of all, it's only a 15mins drive from WH. We're going again tmr for lunch at The Cheesecake Factory, as tmr's their 30th anniversary and the famous cheesecakes are all going for only $1.50! Slurpzz.... Too bad I was too engrossed in shopping that I totally forgot to whip out my cammie to snap some pics.

In the evening, the hubbies and the rest of the guys met us at Joe's Crab Shack for dinner.
The usual gang were seated together, while the other wives together with their families were at the other table. Uncle Penghan was too embarrassed to be seen in the over-sized bib. Hahaa...
We just need to take a picture of ourselves.
We had very yummy garlic mussels, and a rather bland garlic and herbs steampot at one end of the table...
and the delectable calamari and salty BBQ steampot at the other end of the table. Actually I had more fun laughing at the rest in the silly looking bibs, than tucking into the jumbo crab legs.





Thereafter some of us proceeded to Harrah's casino while the rest called it a night.
Our main purpose was to check out Voodoo, a supposedly happening club in Harrah's that was not very happening afterall. Much to our disappointment, we left an hour later at around 1230am, when the club was still pretty much cold and empty. I guess I probably will not have a chance to relish the good old fun, wasting my nights away like we used to, for as long as we're here. Made me miss the clubbing days so much...

Union Station was where we went on Saturday noon, and dinner was at Hard Rock Cafe.
Abit about St. Louis Union Station, it was once the largest and busiest passenger rail terminal in the world! It was first opened in 1894, but ceased operation as an active train terminal since 1978.
Union Station reopened in August 1985 as the largest adaptive re-use project in the United States.
Today, St. Louis Union Station houses a 539 room Hyatt Regency Hotel, luxury offices, a lake, four active train tracks and a plaza for festivals, concerts and other special events. Actually it's quite a boring mall lah. =P
Dinner was good! HRC's ribs kept me busy with licking my fingers clean.
A newly-wed having their wedding pictures taken in the historic station. I love the tulle gown!
Fudgery, is where we bought our most expensive fudge ever. At $15/pound, Say Kwee and I spent a total of $28 on 5 pieces of fudge, each the size of a piece of cake. This was after an estimated 40% discount, else the check would have come to a whopping $45! Quite an interesting outlet, as the staff sang and played games with shoppers. The Singaporeans in us found it rather amusing but the friendly act was what made the business brisk I guess.

Subsequently, we proceeded to the 3rd casino in 3 weeks.
Where hubby won back 1/3 of his previous night's losses.
Lumiere was more uninteresting as there was not even a single club in sight. Thus we headed home to chill instead.





P.S. On our drive back, we realised the very happening nightlife was actually along the road adjacent to Lumiere! We made a pact to visit "Big Daddy's" at Laclede's Landing very soon.

Meixuan, Say Kwee, Shaun, hubby and I ended the night with the extravagant fudge, beer and vodka in our apartment till 3 in the morning. I find this so much more happening than freezing ourselves in the dormant club.





Nothing interesting to mention about Sunday, as the uncles and aunties spent the noon browsing in Wal-mart and its likes along Chesterfield. It was then the weekly grocery shopping in the evening before we prepare for another week ahead.

The coming weekend will definitely be much more intriguing, as we're going for a mega shopping spree in Osage! It's the tax holiday weekend and we're going to take a 3hrs drive to our first factory outlet! As advised by the wives' club, we've set aside $500 for this shopping trip. I can't wait!

Btw, I passed my driving test today on my 1st attempt and we're finally going to apply for our driving licenses tmr. Congrats to myself, that I will no longer be an ID-less alien roaming in States.