This is the big birthday milestone for me. When you are young you think 70 is really old. Well, it is old but not really old as I am still functioning, dancing, hiking and all those fun things we do.
The day started off with breakfast in Rolla, then a trip into St Louis to meet up with brother-in-law Jan who is also celebrating the same birth date. After we checked into the Omni Majestic Hotel, we went to the Scottish Arms for dinner and I had Bangers and Mash along with a glass of wine. I topped that off with a huge slice of strawberry-rhubarb bread pudding with a gob of real whipped cream. It was way too much to eat but it was great.
The Omni Majestic is a beautiful old hotel that sat empty for many years and was renovated a few years ago. The hotel was built in 1914 and had over a hundred rooms at that time. It now has around 90. The hotel belonged to ATT&T who sold it to Omni and Omni did the renovation. This hotel sits right downtown in St Louis and is in a part of St Louis that was really in bad shape a few years ago and you didn't want to drive down there let alone stay. In the past several years they have done major renovation of the downtown area and the old warehouses now have little shops and lofts and is really quite nice.
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