Skip to main content

Tourist in St. Louis

Finally, after 4 months of living in St. Louis, I finally toured some of the popular spots in St. Louis.

 One of my best friends from Agnes Scott College came to visit me! Cecilia Alcala and I met our freshman year but became really close during our Jr. and Sr. Years at Agnes. Throughout the past couple of years, thanks to texting and facebook, we have been able to keep in touch and our friendship has grown! During my months of unemployment, Cecilia's friendship and support was extremely helpful and her positive attitude was always inspiring! 

 Cecilia's first visit to St. Louis was a great reason for me to go out and explore the city I live in! Thank goodness for the Great weather! 

 We started our day getting breakfast at a Stl gem, Strange Donuts. Two doors down was a place called, Pie, Oh My! While the plan was just to get a donut, we ended up going to Pie, oh my and got mini pies as well!! Oh boy were we ready to conquer our sugar filled breakfast!! 

After breakfast, we headed over to the St. Louis Zoo. I love going to zoos. The inner child in me becomes very happy!! We got to see Tigers, Hippos, Cheetas, Camels, Elephants etc! It was great!! 

Towards the end of our trip at the zoo, we were both very hungry again! It was lunch time! For lunch we went to Bogart, a St.L BBQ Gem. The week before, I had the pleasure of going to the same place with another great friend I met while I was at Agnes. 

After lunch, I had to take Cecilia to my favorite spot: The Farmers Market! I have fallen in love with the farmers market here in St.L. It is amazing with great prices. I have gotten groceries for a whole month for less than $20!! It great!!! 

Of course while exploring St.L, it is important to visit the Gateway Arch of St.L. Unfortunately, there was tons of traffic, construction and road blocks and we couldnt make it too close to the arch, but were able to get some great pictures of it while we stood in traffic :D 


Finally, we ended our day tour with a free Anhauser-Busch Brewery Tour and a complementary drink! I discovered this tour last weekend while I was planning a tour for my friend Dwight. Its a great tour for beer drinks (something I am not) but its FREE so something to take advantage of! 

It was a long and crazy day but the company was great!! For those of you who have never been to StL feel free to come visit!! There is tons more to do here, this is just what could be done in the mini vacation Cecilia planned to StL!!! Give me a shout out if your in StL and I would love to take you around!!! 

~Cell-ebraTez


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Operation Mouse

Part of working at such a great research institution is working with mice. While my first experience as I had mentioned earlier in the blog was sacrificing these animals, my experience now is much more exciting and productive towards the scientific community. I have learned to inject mice and collect mouse tissue for further studies.  Around Thanksgiving, someone asked me, "don't you feel bad 'torturing' the animals?" While at first I did not know how respond, but then I think about it and I realize that I had to go through so much training and clearances just to be able to set a foot in the animal facilities. Ever step of the way, humane acts are enforced while dealing with animals. Animal models are essential especially for research that is being translated into therapies for various diseases or for research that is used to better understand various diseases. The best thing I can say is, if not animals then would you prefer s...
Post a Comment
Read more

Symmetry Biosciences

I went back to Symmetry to say my last goodbyes today since I didn't get a chance to last Tuesday. It was bitter sweet! I am excited for my next journey but will definitely miss the people I have worked with and come to call my friends.  Where should I begin about my experience at Symmetry Biosciences. It has been amazing! Day 1 was scary! The thought of doing a column purification, doing my own reactions or anything chemistry related made me nervous. The only word that seemed familiar to me was TLC (Thin Layer Chromatography). Of which I didn't even know the correct technique but just remembered a technique called TLC from Organic Lab in 2010. I had so much to learn and such little time to perfect it all. Everyone at Symmetry Biosciences has been so helpful and so patient. There have been plenty of times when the scientists were probably tired of my silly questions or couldn't believe I asked a certain question! The first couple of days were the hardest. After that, I ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Your Everyday Scientist

When I run into people in social settings and the topic of my career or what I do comes up. Most people are surprised when I say “I am a scientist.” On occasion, I’ve also gotten the, “you don’t look like a scientist” comment… So, what does a scientist look like? Most often when you think of a scientist this is what comes to your mind… Do I have to be male, white, old, and unkept, lack a fashion sense to be a scientist? One of the projects I’ve been wanting to work on is making science more fashionable! Most people think that fashion and science don’t mix. Or that scientists cannot be fashionable. To break this stereotype, I’ve been wanting to work on a fashion/science post for a while. I was finally able to make some time for it and got some great volunteers to help me with this project. This was a fun project in which I am featuring my female program-mates who wear multiple hats for me: mentors and friends. Always there to give me advice on grad sch...
Post a Comment
Read more