For Jeremy's birthday this year we decided to take a overnight trip to French Colonial, St. Genevieve, Missouri. Founded in 1735, Ste. Genevieve is the oldest permanent European settlement in the State of Missouri. They were celebrating the Jour De Fete. It was an awesome little town and the festival was amazing. There were vendors EVERYWHERE.
But, rewind a bit first. We went down to St. Louis on Friday and spent the night at the Rennassaince, one of our favorite hotels down there. We woke up bright and early and drove the hour to St. Genevieve. We spent the whole day there exploring. It was a blast. The only problem was the extreme heat...I think that day ended up being the hottest day of the summer.
But, rewind a bit first. We went down to St. Louis on Friday and spent the night at the Rennassaince, one of our favorite hotels down there. We woke up bright and early and drove the hour to St. Genevieve. We spent the whole day there exploring. It was a blast. The only problem was the extreme heat...I think that day ended up being the hottest day of the summer.
The whole town was chock full of cutesy shops and crap tons of vendors.
They had people walking around in costume doing little scenes right amongst everything. They even had the fake gun fire to go with it . Pretty cool stuff.
This old guy was pretty cool. He was hand carving spoons and other utensils like they used in the 1700's.
We ate home made ice cream, tons of food, and shopped. We got some cool luau decorations for the luau that we had later in the month.
This where we ate lunch. It was down home cookin'. Just what I was craving right then! And air conditioned. It was called The Old Brick House. It is the oldest brick building West of the Mississippi.
Their bar area was taken from a Steam ship.
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