I reluctantly crawled out of bed at 5.30 as we have to head off to the airport early... quick shower and coffee then a half hour drive and we're saying our goodbyes to Dan. It's been so lovely to see all our friends again and we left Dan assuring him we will be back sometime!When we checked our bags in mine was somehow a little overweight so to avoid a $75 excess fee I had to do a quick repack but we got checked in and bags disposed of pretty fast then on...

We had a nice slow easy start to the day with a lovely breakfast and sitting chatting for a few hours. We weren't sure if we were going to stay at Lena and Dans tonight as no real plans had been made but when John and Stephanie started talking about maybe a day trip to Hot Springs with soaking in hot tubs and massages we were sold! It took about an hour to drive from Lake Norell to Hot Springs and since we had such a late getaway it was lunch time when we got...

Up early today as we have a taxi booked for 6 am. I had brought some teabags and milk up from breakfast yesterday so managed to make us a nice cup of tea in the coffee perculator to get the day started, I also ate some of my cheesecake but didn't finish it cos it's not really a 5.30am type of food for me! Reception staff had slipped our processed payment under the door sometime through the night and they'd charged us $100 more than the booking.com pri...

Once again we started our day with a fabulous breakfast in the Lower Lobby, today I was a little less dressed so was comfortable through breakfast. Back to the room to don a few more layers and we're ready to spend yet another day exploring St Louis, my phone said it was -10 but feels like -18, looking out the window it looked so nice and sunny, surely it can't feel that cold? The plan was to check out Central West End and Delmar Loop however as my suitc...

We were up bright and early to start our exploration of St Louis but first we partook of the fabulous breakfast spread served in the lower Lobby and was included in the cost of our room. We had a lovely surprise when we walked into the breakfast room, there was 5 different stations. On the left the first was cold cereal, fresh fruit, yoghurt and juices, next was the hot drinks and lastly on the far end a toaster with a good selection of breads and also some pastr...