Its coooold in St. Louis!
I am all bundled up in every piece of winter clothing I own and I am still freezing. I am such a Florida girl. 🙂
It felt great to get a really good night of sleep last night. By the time I finally made it back to my room I was a little more than exhausted. I passed out as soon as I hit the pillow.
Unfortunately, the great night of sleep didn’t lead to a great start to the day. I woke up to an overflowing toilet and a flooded bathroom!
They fixed the toilet immediately, but didn’t get to the flood until after I was out to door for the day. I wish I could have got a better picture of the flood. It wasn’t pretty.
I spent the hour or so I had to myself in the morning, exploring what little I could of the surrounding area. Downtowns kind of scare me, so I didn’t wander far. I was in search for a great breakfast place and found a cute little market that prepared wraps, sandwiches, ad other various items.
My 18 miles from yesterday had caught up with me and I was hangry.
I ordered a gigantic burrito filled with eggs, veggies and beans.
Yummy!
I also had a Vanilla Yogurt.
I probably could have done with out the yogurt as the burrito was so filling, but I really wanted some yogurt with my meal. I only ate about 3/4 of the yogurt and burrito before tossing the rest.
The rest of my morning was spent in the Tradeshow booth pushing a a new product I quickly learned alot about.
This was my first tradeshow experience for my job. I am not a sales person by nature, so it was defintiely a learning curve to get people into the booth. Once I got a system down it was a cinch. 🙂
It helped that I had great people working with me. 😉
All the booth rangling was hard work. I spent 8+ hours on my feet and built up quite an appetite!
Around 10:00 I had an apple that I saved from breakfast.
And for lunch a co-worker and I picked up some eats from the deli next to the convention center.
I loaded up at the salad bar and took it to go.
The afternoon started to pick just as I was beginning to drag. An Awake Tea Misto quickly came to the rescue.
Once the show was over I was tired, hungry & cranky. I can’t begin to tell you how much work goes into working a booth!
We didn’t even waste time changing or relaxing, the four of us headed straight to dinner at a local recommended restaraunt called Charlie Giattos.
For the second night in a row a nice bottle of red wine made an appearance and was shared among the table.
I had a cup of French Onion Soup with out the bread and cheese on top, but I did have a piece of bread on the side for dipping.
For the main course the Seafood Risotto.
This was very tasty. I enjoyed the big hunks of seafood. Yum!
It’s 8:30 St. louis time and I am ready to crawl into bed and call it a night. Tomorrow is another full day of work, beginning with an early run in the hotel gym. I can’t wait.
Good Night!
Sounds like you have been busy busy! Yeah shows are usually long and hurt the feet- hopefully you have comfy shoes!
Standing on your feet all day is exhausting — during the year I taught, we weren’t allowed to sit down in our classrooms at all! Ugh! Looks like you’re having an enjoyable trip though. 🙂
that borrito looks amazing!!!! i’m sure that kept you fueled for a while! good luck tomorrow! 🙂
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Looks like you have stayed super healthy on your trip- between the sleep and all of the healthy food! Rest up!
Part of my job is to manage the tradeshow program for my company too! It can be exhausting and the travel can really take it’s toll. Hard to be peppy and friendly to attendees when you’re tired and fee ache!
I found that a hot bath is the best remedy after a long day on the tradeshow floor! After wine and dinner, of course, LOL 🙂
you look like a model in the first pic!
A toilet on your blog! I think this is a first!
I was exhausted just walking around in the trade show we went to, I can only imagine WORKING it! Glad to hear it isn’t as scary as it looks…Im thinking of doing one next year.
Enjoy the rest of your trip!
Such great eats for a traveling girl! A flooded bathroom sounds like a fun way to start the day too!
looks like a great but busy day!
your breakfast burrito, lunch salad, and seafood risotto all look great!
jenna
Meghann, you HAVE to go to Pi for dinner before you leave! I’m from St. Louis (actually driving back home tomorrow!), and this is one of our claims to fame. It’s a really good deep dish pizza place (with cornmeal crust), and the restaurant is ecologically sustainable. President Obama chose pizza from Pi instead of classic Chicago deep dish to serve at one of his dinners. Also, make sure you hit up Ted Drewes for frozen custard! Even though it’s cold, I’m sure they’ll be a line!
Looks like a great work trip!
glad things are going well…besides the toilet incident. hah.
and i totally hear you about being a fl girl, cause i’m in sacramento and it’s 35 and i’m dying…goes to show i’m a socal girl!
You are too cute all bundled up! That sucks about the toilet 😛
Congrats on making it through a long yet successful day!
ooooh Ilove your hat in the first pic 🙂
Oooh love your hot pink handbag! I have a hot pink Marc Jacobs bag that is my absolute treasure. I love wearing it and always seem to get comments on the colour. I love hot pink accesories! Sounds lik a long long day so try to relax :).
You look so cute! I went to bed super early too (before 9pm!). Good luck on another long day!
I work expos fairly regularly as a part of my job and it is DEFINITELY exhausting!
Making me miss home! If you have time, check out teh Central West End – it’s teh “hip” part of downtown STL.
Trade fairs are TIRING! I’m sure today will fly by and you’ll be back home before you know it 🙂
Ugh– stuff like this is so exhausting. I feel ya 🙂
At least your eats look delish!
That burrito looks delicious! I’m sure all that good food you ate kept you going throughout the day. Good luck with the rest of your booth wrangling 😉
Man, waking up to the bathroom flood must have been… fun. Way to not let it bring you down at all! 🙂
Good luck today!! Hope it’s less stressful.
That burrito looks completely amazing. And does it seriously say $2.99!? If it does that’s an AWESOME deal! Haha.
Have a great day! Hope it’s not too crazy!
Tradeshows are hard work. I have to go to one each year with my company, plus I coordinate them in house. Exhausting.
Nice travel eats! I travel a decent amount for work and know how tricky it can be!
Wow, what a day! My college residence was an old hotel and my room’s toilet once overflowed and flooded the bathroom… Not fun 🙁
Looks like you are having a good time!!
Glad you got some nommy eats in on your work day!
Your breakfast burrito looks so good! I had one for the first time when I was in the southwest for work – what a delicious idea :O).
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ooohhh! So jealous! I’m from Missouri originally and always loved going downtown StL with my friends!!! Such good food! (And places to enjoy an adult beverage or two… he he)
That breakfast burrito looks ahhhhhhh-mazing! Have a great day!
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I love your hair and outfits. You always look so cute!
Sounds like a long but good day! Your breakfast burrito looks just awesome. Hope that today goes just as well
I can totally sympathize with the flooding. Our upstairs neighbor flooded her bathroom and it flooded ours as well. Awful.
I also worked my fair share of trade shows and they are a lot of work!
Looks like a busy day!!!! That burrito looks OUTSTANDING! Hope your having a great day!
I thought the burrito looked delicious, but the risotto was even more fantastic-looking!
kickass breakfast! just wanted to let you know of the giveaway on my blog in case you’re interested in a jacket 🙂
That burrito looks awesome; it’s always nice to find cute (healthful) on-the-go foods like that.
have a great trip girl!!! mmm I love overstuffed burritos, surley fill you up and keep you satisfied for a while!
be careful of that bathroom floor!!
Your toilet incident reminds me of something that happened once to me at a hotel – the sink started spewing sewage water from the drain! It was horrible. The hotel was kind enough to quickly move us to a new room.
It’s too bad the STL weather is so crummy for your trip! Today & tomorrow’s weather here (near freezing, windy & rain) is about as bad as it gets!
Hi Meghann!
I love your blog! I have been following it for quite some time now! I cant tell you how much I relate to the whole sitting at a desk all day and having to learn how to really eat and cook for yourself! My friend Katie and I just started a blog and you are a huge inspiration for us! Keep up the good work!
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Isn’t French Onion soup the best?
You’ve got some willpower avoiding the cheese-y topping though! That’s my favorite part… mmm, melty Gruyere…
Where in downtown stl did you get that breakfast burrito?
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