5-29-2016  Birthday dinner at Cunetto's and driving around town:

Time is running out on this trip.  We figured we'd stay until my renewed passport came in the mail, but it was here waiting for me when we got here --- only about a week after I sent in for the renewal!!!  So we went to Dr.s and saw a few friends.  Even had 6 gallons of freon put in the air conditioner.  Only a couple things left to do---like have a real birthday dinner since we were on the road for 9 hours of my real birthday!  Always love going to Cunetto's.  St. Louis has an area known as The Hill where a bunch of Italians settled and half of them opened up restaurants "on the Hill".   They're all great, but I love the Bistecca Soto and the salad at Cunetto's the best!

 Then we rode around some places in St. Louis.  Here's Tower Grove Park.

 baby wood ducks at Tower Grove Park.

 I was surprised to see some irises still blooming.

 daddy wood duck

 Reynard the Fox--- the folklore fox of long ago whose stories typically involve satire where the usual butts are the aristocracy and the clergy, making Reynard a peasant-hero character. He's perched here on the corner of one of the Anheuser-Busch Brewery buildings.

 another Anheuser building.

 On to Forest Park.  This was by the Muny.

 Even saw a Great White Egret enjoying Forest Park!