Sculptures Part 1 of 3

Well, Kortney and I are back in Provo and are very busy indeed. Hence, blog neglect. We have tons of fun pictures from things we did this summer, and we are still trying to have adventures when time permits, but its harder to let all of our many followers about them. Little by little, I am hoping to recap some of our favorite St. Louis moments and then move on to our lives in Provo.

One thing that St. Louis was loaded with was art. There was a world class art museum (which we never went to) as well as many other smaller venues and tons of public gardens with lots of sculptures. We went and saw quite a few of them and got to be self-proclaimed sculture buffs. Three sculpture venues stood out as highlights of our artistic summer. This post is about the first, The Laumiere Sculpture Park:

We learned about this park from roadsideamerica which touted its giant eyeball as a must see attraction. Well, it definitely was:

According to roadsideamerica, the artist who made this eyeball has now made a second version of this same statue that is four times this size and sits in a public park in Chicago.

Kortney will probably not be pleased that I put this picture online, but oh well. This sculpture was pretty interesting to look at, however if you look carefully you'll see a bright red pillar sculpture in the back, we liked that one more, but I don't have any better pictures of it. This sculptor did a related sculpture in Citygarden that we liked more, so stay tuned for that one.

Some people who looked a lot like tibetan monks were sharing the Park with us. Kortney did not want me to take any pictures of them but I did this one from a distance so there was no awkward moment.

This was definitely one of our favorites. It was a very interesting visual. It seems effortlessly metaphorical (our lives are like a tangled knot that will never separate itself). We sat and talked on this sculpture for a nice while.

So much metaphor was going on on our walk around the park. Here we have the roots, just like the roots of our new family that we are trying to grow. This was an awesome sculpture to look at.

One of these was tiny, and one of them was huge. Thanks to Kortney's expert manipulation of perspective, they appear to be the same size. Are you tripping yet?

And that was our trip to Laumeier Sculpture Park. Oh the memories!

Adventures in St. Louis

This summer Peter and I decided to adventure across the country and try something completely new; Summer Sales. Needless to say, it's not the most glamorous job in the world. When we first decided to sign on with a company called Linx Satallite, they told us we would be selling in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I don't know much about Iowa, but it was all the same to me, at the time. Luckily, there was a Sales Rep who had family in Iowa and he really wanted to sell there. So, we were then told that we would be stationed in St. Louis, MO. Like I said, at the time I really didn't care where we went, I just wanted to make money. =D Now that we are here, I am SO grateful that we ended up in St. Louis. Don't get me wrong I have nothing against Iowa, it's just that I have already fallen in love with this fun and exciting city. There are so many interesting things to do and see here. Peter is compiling a list of all the things we want to visit before the summer is over, and let me tell you, it is pretty impressive. Even if Summer Sales turns out to be the worst job ever, at least we are in a fun, new place where we can have some great memories and take some awesome pictures!

10 Things you (Probably) didn't know about St. Louis
I found this in the 2010 Official Visitors Guide to St. Louis, I thought it was pretty interesting. =D

#1 - St. Louis City is limited to only 61 square miles - it cannot physically grow any larger because of a mandate in the city's charter which was established in 1876.

#2 - The custom of placing chocolates on hotel pillows began when actor Cary Grant stayed at The Mayfair and used chocolates to woo a woman friend from her room to his.

#3 - There were four foods popularized at the 1904 World's Fair - the hot dog, the hamburger, iced tea and the ice cream cone.

#4 - The popular soda 7-Up was invented here and Dr. Pepper was first introduced at the 1904 World's Fair.

#5 - St. Louis offers more free attractions than any city outside of Washington D.C., including the Saint Louis Zoo, Missouri History Museum,. Grant's Farm, Saint Louis Art Museum, Anheuser-Busch Brewery Tours, Citygarden, Saint Louis Science Center, Laumeier Sculpture Park, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Museum of Westward Expansion, Old Courthouse, National Great Rivers Museum, and the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site.

#6 - The world's first skyscraper - Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building - is located at the corner of Seventh and Chestnut streets.

#7 - St. Louis was the first American City to host the Olympic Games (1904).

#8 - Juniors clothing was created in St. Louis in the mid-1930s when a merchandising manager at a local department store persuaded students at Washington University's School of Dress Design to create dresses that would appeal to women in their teens and twenties.

#9 - Planter's Punch and Tom Collins cocktails were Invented at a St. Louis hotel called the Planter's House.

#10 -Susan Blow started the first U.S. kindergarten in St. Louis in 1873.

As you can see St. Louis is a pretty bombin' city and we are SO excited to take advantage of all the various adventures it has to offer us!