之前我们原本计划在這漂亮的日子舉行结婚party，但佛光山temple的師父須到其它州，所以我们在這一天也没什么很大的特别事情。不過我還是想和你分享我们在這一天的活動…
我们没有开party反而是参加Steve同事的一位華人朋友邀请的Pool Party，Steve跟着她email的方向去party的地点。
这是途中看到的路邊時鐘… 我们已找到了地点… 
我照片背后的女士，
就是Steve同事的朋友，她是Ipoh, Malaysia人，住在美国已很多年。Pool party的食物很多，
是各自拿食物来與大家分享… 當我在四處張望时，Steve問我﹕”你在看什么？” 我说﹕”在数人…哈哈！” 人数陸陸续续到来，约有15位黑、白種人及18位＇黃＇種人。＇黃＇種人大多都是青年男女…我没听到任何人在讲華语… 
我们在party约两小时半，却没見Steve的同事到来。向主人辞别后…我们的另一个活動是去市中心看煙花，原来July 4国慶的慶祝后，每个週末至到八月第一个週末还有節目。
Steve对市中心的路途方向並不熟悉而且距离遠，所以我们是乘坐輕快鉄。我好像＇阿牛入城记＇般，第一次＇入城＇很好奇…
在輕快鉄内，我觀察到的景象… 一群人從一个站进来，其中有一男黑人帶着三个小孩，两位白人起身让座给他们… 另一个站，一对年輕的白人男女进来，一位男黑人(坐在前排的位子上)馬上起身要让座给年輕的小姐。身穿粉红色的漂亮小姐微笑拒絕，
这位黑男士又坐下…黑皮膚的臉上帶着微笑望着不认识的小女孩… 我不知道美國还有没有种族的支視存在？不过就在擁擠的輕快鉄内的那时刻，我看到及感覺到詳和…
輕快鉄内擁擠着不少的红衣者，
他們是為觀看及支持St. Louis的Cardinals隊(红鳥) baseball 比賽而来…
我们到站后走出去…
即可看到St. Louis最出名的景点The Gateway Arch。我们就是要上The Arch的頂端看景…
你能看到頂瑞的小窗口嗎？經過深嚴的检查后才能進入The Arch，幸虧让我们買到上The Arch頂端的tram票，还没輪到我们的tram时間，我们进去里边的一个博物館走走。博物館内没有什么让我吸引的東西，却看到特别的＇博物＇
– 这位老兄的鞋子比我做大戏時穿的鞋子还高呢！哈哈…
有一群女性身穿此种服装，
不知道她们是承续那一个傳统？
我们的tram时间到了…一趟tram有8个小籠，
一个小籠有5个位子… 哗！到了頂端啦…这邊是体育場，
baseball比赛就是在那儿举行﹔
古老的教堂﹔
Historic Old Courthouse，Steve說将会找另外一天去参觀。另一邊是Mississippi河，
有一间Casino﹔慶祝表演台，
樂隊歌手正在表演﹔我看到一艘很奇怪的船航駛着，
我問Steve﹕”这艘船是做何用途的呢？” 嗯…他给我的答案却不是这艘船在當晚的用途… 你猜得到那是用来做什么的嗎？
晚上最后的節目就是放煙花啦… 哗！
好像很多星星飛向你… 我们站在欄杆望向河中煙花燃放的起点…哈哈…原來那很長形的平台船，是燃放煙花的地方…
07/07/07 was a date this year with the same numbers repeated; did you do anything special that day?
Previously we thought to have a wedding party on this great day, but the nuns of Fo Guang Shan temple were not in town. So we didn’t have any special thing to do, but I would like to share our activities on that day to you…
We went to a Pool Party instead of our party. We were invited by a Chinese friend of Steve’s colleague. She gave the directions in email and Steve drove to the party venue. On the way, we saw this clock on the side of the road… We found the venue… My photo, the lady behind me is Steve’s colleague’s friend who is from
Downtown is a little bit far and Steve was not sure how to get there, so we went by commuter train. I was new and this was my first time to go downtown for sightseeing. I was so curious about many things along the way…
I observed on the train… A group of people came in from a station, and a black man with 3 children got on. Two white men stood up from their seat to let them have seats. A young couple came in from another station and the black man in the first row stood up from his seat; he wanted the young lady to have a seat. That beautiful lady in the pink blouse rejected with a smile. The black man sat down in his seat again…he turned his face, smiling at the 3 children; they didn’t know each other… I don’t know, is there still racism in the
Many people wearing red shirts crowded onto the train; they were going to see and support the
We were going out from the station…and saw the most famous attraction in
We saw this group of ladies with this type of costume; I don’t know, what tradition is this from?
It’s time for our tram… the tram has 8 small capsules; every capsule has 5 seats… Wow! We arrived at the top…this side has a stadium where they were playing the baseball game, the Old Cathedral, and the Historic Old Courthouse; Steve said we will visit them one day. On the other side is the Mississippi river, a Casino, the performance stage for the live bands; I saw a strange ship moving on the river, and I asked Steve, “what is the purpose of this ship?” Em…his answer was not the purpose of the ship that night… Can you guess what it was?
The end of the evening was a fireworks show… Wow! They look like many stars coming toward you… We were standing behind a fence and looking to the river where the fireworks were being launched…haha…the long deck of the ship is to shoot fireworks…
9.7.07 9.10pm
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