We spent Saturday in Saint Louis and visited our son, Stephen (and his dog Schatzi). His fiancee, Beth, is out of town until Wednesday. Nice to have him and his car squire us around to Whole Foods and a good local grocery store so we could provision the boat for our trip on the Mississippi, Ohio, Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers starting Monday.

Stephen lives in a nice apartment building right downtown, in easy walking distance to lots of nice restaurants, bars, etc. We went to a great sushi bar for sushi, probably the last well have for a few months. Sushi isn't too big in Tennessee and Alabama, you know. This is the view of the St. Louis Arch from his apartment building rooftop pool and garden. That stone courthouse at the bottom right of the arch is where the Dred Scott case was decided.

We went walking to the park at the Arch with Stephen and Schatzi. When you put a long retractable leash on Schatzi and get out a frisbee, schatzi runs like a banshee, just zipping around for the sheer joy of zipping around.