family vacationing

*Overheard-

Winery owner: "Seven of our eight wines won medals at the State Fair."
Old guy: "My brownies won first prize at the State Fair. Now a local restaurant uses the recipe. They call them 'Fast Eddie's Blondie Brownies.' I'm famous."

Old woman: "We went to a casino twenty years ago and lost eight dollars."
Old man: "We went for the second time in our lives this weekend and won eight dollars. Now we're even."

*Sitting in a tiny capsule moving upward through the St. Louis Gateway Arch-

My mother: "You know, three days ago the power went out and people were trapped in these things for hours."
Young man: "I'm claustrophobic. Don't tell me that!"
His younger brother: "Only three minutes left..."

*Uncomfortable is what you feel when sitting down at a park table with a bag of Burger King and you realize that your neighbors are a group of runners/walkers discussing healthy cooking and weight loss.

*The St. Louis Zoo in Forest Park is free. The penguins are within touching distance. But don't get too close, because they like to splash.