An early halloween

29th October, 2011

 Myself and Amelia went to a cafe for breakfast. It is called Mississippi Mudpie and is pretty famous in St. Louis. I had an American breakfast and a latte. Amelia told me that the owner is also an artist and will put any image on lattes. She made me a zombie as halloween is coming up (see above).

After breakfast, we went to the Budweiser brewery. We first attended Beer School. This was pretty good. We learned the basics of what beer is made from, how it's made and then sampled four of the beers that are brewed there. We learned how to pour different kinds of beer, what to look for, what you should smell and taste. Afterwards we became certified brewmasters (another thing for my CV).

After beer school,  we went on the free tour. This was somewhat interesting though we had learned much of what was said at beer school. We did get to see a lot of the places where the brewing process takes place. At the end of the tour, we got two free drinks (not bad for a free tour). I wondered if the tour attracted alcoholics.

We left the brewery and went to Target to look for things for our halloween costumes. Amelia's housemates came up with an idea that I should be a leprauchan and Amelia should be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I had a lot of trouble finding a beard and didn't have many green clothes but I made it work.

We then went to a halloween party hosted by a friend of Amelia's. They are from her local church so they  were really friendly. Some of the costumes were pretty good though there were a few strange ones. They even put a costumes on their dog.