Dang, double dang!

There is never a time I don't miss my family. We're a tight knit group of crazies that like to be around one another. It's just hard to envision doing the work I do now and enjoying some of the things I do now, back at home where most of them (or across the country where Jen) live. But I digress.

Twice in the last two weeks I've missed them and home even more.

Two weeks ago it was because of the Moonlight Ramble.


This is something we always did together as kids. Dad and a couple of my uncles + at least one of my aunts and some cousins were always part of our group. It was a HUGE highlight of my childhood for several reasons. We got to:

• ride our bikes in a giant group of people
  
• in the middle of the night (race starts at 12:01 a.m.)
  
• in the streets of St. Louis from downtown up to our neighborhood in South St. Louis
• enjoy breakfast afterwards at IHOP

Being able to do anything adult-ish while still a child was the BEST!

And then this past weekend it was The Morganford Stumble. As any self-respecting South City native, you know that Morganford is a major road that runs through our part of town. It starts at Arsenal on the south side of Tower Grove Park and runs a mere 4 miles before becoming Union Rd. and part of St. Louis County. The Morganford Stumble was started 18 years ago by Andy Vogel and some of his buds. It's a pub crawl that takes place completely on Morganford with only a brief detour (Gravois detour) to Gravois, created the year construction made it impossible to pass through the regular route, and since then kept in place for sentimentality sake. The bars along this route are not fancy, they aren't that big and they don't always carry a wide selection of beers.

None of this matters.

You drink Bud or Bud Light and you drink a lot of it. You see and hang with people you grew up with. You may or may not purchase a 40 oz. at 7-11 when Morganford crosses Chippewa (there's a little dry spell there between bars) and you may or may not choose to play washers to enhance your stumbling experience. But you will abide the command to move on ...and that is LET'S GET READY TO STUMBLE!!! ...think of boxing's let's get ready to rumble

Here are Monika, Beth, Tim and Erika representing at this years Stumble!


I sure miss you all!