MyFriendCleveland

Day 3’s “St. Louis” was actually Belleville, IL, a small town about 30 minutes north of St. Louis. I am a huge fan of small towns. Whenever I’m driving long distances and I see a small town off the side of the highway, I romanticize what it would be like to drop everything and live there. Belleville was one of those towns. There was a nice little Main street where everything converged. There was an open air art show happening right in the town’s main intersection. We stopped in an Irish pub and chatted with the bartender, who was from Ireland. We grabbed some ice cream at the local ice cream shop (unfortunately the ice cream was not home made, and they were playing that movie The Expendables on a tv, which I thought was an odd choice for an ice cream store).

The show was okay. Jon is having guitar issues that we’re going to get looked at over the next two days, since we don’t have any shows. We played well, and people seemed to enjoy it. We had the option of staying in the venue, which seemed kind of weird, or driving to Columbia, MO to stay with an old friend Metro. Despite the 2 hour drive, we decided to go with Columbia. It was a good decision. We all got soft places to sleep, Metro told some hilarious stories for an hour before we all went to bed, and I woke up to an incredible day.