April 21: Washington University Hospital Complex

The kids weren't excited about this leg of the trip. But I really wanted to find these cakes. I spent my first year of college at StLCoP, St. Louis College of Pharmacy and I wanted to get a picture of that cake for old time's sake and to explore the area that has changed so much in the 25 years since I lived there. We ended up parking in the parking garage and walking to most of them. But, before we got there, we took a quick detour to the Basilica.

Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis

First stop in the medical complex had to be StLCoP. The kids wouldn't let me explore the campus. But we did get a picture at the cake.

St. Louis College of Pharmacy

Next we found the Children's Hospital Cake and someone was kind enough to take a picture of all of us. He said he had been doing that a lot.

St. Louis Children's Hospital

Then we found the Washington University Medical School Cake

Washington University Medical School

The hardest hunt of the day turned out to be the Central Institute for the Deaf. We looked all around the hospital side of the building and down the street along the school and couldn't find it. We were practicing our sign language in case we had to ask for help. Though I knew that wouldn't really be necessary as back in the day, a student from this school was in before school care in my home day care and I  knew they emphasize lip reading rather than sign language. But it was fun to challenger ourselves to use our signing knowledge to formulate the question. Finally, we cut around back and found it in a nice little garden.

Central Institute for the Deaf

On the way back, I had to take some pictures of my old school.

I took this picture of the Barnes and Noble across the walk way from the school. Back in the day, we had a small campus bookstore. We didn't have any big fancy book store with a Starbucks inside! No, in this spot was an emergency room entrance with sirens blaring at all hours of the day. The are is definitely changed and improved since I went to school there. One of the new additions is the big Siteman Cancer Center building where my doctor has offices.

 Here the kids grudgingly stop for one last nostaligic picture for mom.  You can just see the huge parking garage where our car is parked. When I went to school there, that space was occupied by an elementary school and a small parking lot for the StLCop students.

Next at treat before we head home, but that's for another post.