My day started off with a Panera bagel picnic at Wash U to soak up some vitamin D, at the suggestion of Ana. Then we had plans to watch old episodes of The Office with some of the Gateway Vincentian Volunteers. They texted to see if we wanted to go on a brewery tour beforehand. Um, yes.
We piled into the car and took off eagerly. We even successfully navigated the detour where I-64 is closed! But because of the detour we were (unsurprisingly in my life) running late. We got to Schlafly Bottleworks slightly after the 2pm tour we'd hoped to take. As we opened the door, someone remembered -- "Where's my purse?"
We came to the conclusion that she had set it on the ground in the attempt to get everyone settled into the backseat of the 2-door car, and we had driven off without it. She and I ran in to try to find the GVVs and let them know. As we were discovered that they were on the tour, the other 2 girls got out of the car, closing and locking the door behind them. I emerged from the building to see an unfamiliar man trying to break into the car : we had locked the keys in it.
I now know how you use a wire coat hanger to unlock a car door. I'd never seen it done before and had always kind of wondered. I also know that cars with locks like Ana's are very difficult to break into. It took the better part of 45 minutes, as we agonized over missing purses as well. It was a race : Triss was on her way home from another adventure and could bring us a spare key.
At last, the Good Samaritan unlocked the door and went in for his tour. Triss called to let us know that the missing purse was not in the street. So after we got home and knocked on a few neighbors' doors, the police came over to take a report of what was in the purse. We all kind of hung around outside and waited as moral support.
And then -- as the officer took the report, one of our neighbors came outside, holding the missing purse! He had found it and picked it up, unsure to which house it belonged. Seeing us outside with the cop clued him in. He told us it was the 2nd purse he'd returned today!
Not long after this, a couple of the Gateways showed up on bicycles to watch The Office. We played a rousing game of Super-Uno and started on Season 3. This is after I climbed on a counter to close a window and nearly knocked down the light from the ceiling. (Note to Nunnery inmates: there was no computer underneath.)
To conclude this day, Triss and I walked the Loop in the evening and came across a large hippie van emitting bubbles. We played in the bubbles, watched in awe as the bubble man made on large enough for both of us to fit in, and talked to the bubble man's assistant. Apparently, they are http://teknobubbles.com/ and do black-light bubble shows. Who knew that such things existed? Triss got a wristband from them -- a perfect ending to an adventurous day.
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