Downtown STL

We went to Downtown St. Louis yesterday for some family portraits (and yes, by family I mean that they include Mia and Marley :-D), while we were waiting for out photographer I took some pictures of my own :-) Oh yes, with the super nice camera that John gave me for my birthday :-)

On a small side note: we had a wonderful experience when we got there, we had parked on the stree and gotten off the car, and we were trying to find out at what time you don't have to feed the meters any more, so I asked this guy who was in his car and had a small dog with him, he said 7, so we were still more than 1 hour away, we looked for change, none of us had any, and we were trying to decide if we should risk getting a ticket or move my car to a parking lot (more expensive since the Cardinals were playing) when the guy rolls down his window and offers us $1.25 in quarters!!!  I can't tell you how much I appreciated that, not only for the gesture but also because it keeps my hope alive that there are good people out there and that the world is a good place to live in :-)

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Ayer fuimos al Centro de St. Louis a tomarnos fotos de familia (y si, cuando digo familia quiero decir que incluyeron a Mia y a Marley :-D), mientras esperabamos a nuestra fotografa tome fotos por mi cuenta :-)  Ah si, con la super camara que John me regalo en mi cumpleanios :-)

Una nota aparte: tuvimos una experiencia muy grata cuando llegamos ahi, nos habiamos estacionado en la calle y nos bajamos del carro, estabamos tratando de ver a que hora ya no le tienes que echar monedas al estacionometro cuando vi a un senor sentado adentro de su carro con un perro chiquito y le pregunte, el dijo que a las 7 y todavia faltaba mas de una hora, asi que nos pusimos a buscar cambio pero ninguno de los 2 traia, estabamos tratando de decidir si valia la pena arriesgarnos o si deberiamos mover el carro a un estacionamiento (mas caro ya que los Cardenales estaban jugando) cuando el senor baja su ventana y nos ofrece $1.25 en pesetas!!! No les puedo decir cuanto aprecie eso, no solo por su gesto sino porque mantiene viva mi esperanza de que todavia hay gente buena y el mundo es un buen lugar para vivir :-)