Two Lists about St. Louis

In anticipation of leaving Saint Louis I have compiled two lists:

Things We Will Miss About St. Louis

• The owl that lives in the tree outside our bedroom window and hoots me to sleep every night
• Our apartment
• some truly fantastic restaurants like Pho Grand (our ultimate favorite)
• the Parkway Ward
• All my AmFam peeps
• the zoo (one of the best in the nation)
• watching the Cards play (and the Rams and the Blues)
• Fresh mozzarella from Viviano’s Italian deli
• some really great shopping
• Forest Park with the Art Museum, Science Center, and Boathouse
• the Botanical Gardens
• All of these just a few miles from home: Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Costco, an Italian deli, a Middle Eastern deli, and an Asian deli
• charming architecture in neighborhoods like Lafayette Square, Central West End, Litzinger Boulevard, Clayton, and Tower Grove
• Gooey Butter Cake
• The Dave Glover Show
• Anheuser Busch (they sponsor so many fun, free concerts, fireworks etc.)
• Tons of trails, parks and lakes
• Feeling like you’re in the middle of the woods when you’re in the middle of the ‘burbs
• Diversity, variety, and selection

Things We Will Not Miss About St. Louis

• Getting bit by wasps, chiggers, monster-size mosquitoes and other bugs
• Weird salads
• Cheese Sauce on Everything
• Hearing 26 stories/day about someone’s big kill on the hunting trip last weekend
• Hearing 82 stories/day about how drunk someone got last weekend
• Nasty “St. Louis Style” pizza and other weird St. Louis foods like toasted ravioli or pork steak
• Our car getting broken into
• Everybody is a chain smoker
• retarded drivers
• Lakes where waterskiing/wakeboarding is not allowed and where hundreds of people are speeding around in cigar boats
• “fishing lakes” where you’re not allowed to swim
• Disgusting rivers where you wouldn’t want to swim
• (big, useless bodies of water in general)
  
• Nasty Sticky humidity
• Ear Aches (from the humidity)
• Asthma (from the humidity and pollution)
• Getting chicken pocks, pityriasis rosea, and other weird skin issues constantly

this picture has nothing to do with anything, but isn't it awesome?!!
I need some Springtime right now.