As I was saying, we went to St. Louis for the weekend with Doni and Phil. St. Louis is a cool town, we all had a great time. We visited the Budweiser brewery, union station, the arch, and finished it all off with our own pub crawl that took us to some interesting places. The most interesting was a place called the Royal Dumpe. The entire staff was dressed up in medieval clothes. We later found out that there was a dinner theatre attached to the bar, but that didn’t stop us from getting some funny pictures. Hopefully I’ll have them all up by tomorrow!

I’m sure some of you have been waiting for me to post the following story about totaling my new car. Sunday morning we left the hotel around 11 so we could get back home and watch the end of the UC game. Before we could make it 5 miles along the way, the car in front of me swerved from the left lane into the center lane of the highway. This revealed a pick-up truck bed liner sitting in the left hand lane which I was in. I swerved in the same manner that the car in front of me did, and then quickly went back towards the left lane. I guess this with the combination of my braking sent the car into a fishtail like pattern. It felt as if we were on ice, but the road was perfectly dry. This pattern worsened and the car ended up spinning 180 degrees so that Kim and I were face to face with a semi truck. There was nothing I could do now, but just hang on. Obviously we are both ok, and only had minor scratches and soreness. The car is totaled though, at least that is what progressive is telling me now. All that work from so many people, and now it is all wasted.

I asked progressive to send me the pictures they take of the car, so hopefully I can get those up sometime. I had my camera on me the whole time, but didn’t think to take any pictures.

Kim and I have decided to hold off on getting another car. We really only use one car, and with my rising insurance costs I don’t know if it will be worth it at all.

I’m having such bad luck lately, hopefully something turns around…