Spontaneity is important in my opinion. It's healthy to keep some fun in your life, and it sounds like you guys had fun. As long as you don't feel run-down, I think it was a very good idea to go.

Hey--I've been reading your blog for a little while. I can't remember how I came across it...I think from someone else's blog I read.

Anyways, I went to St. Louis this summer for a long weekend. Doing the zoo is fun because it's free and it's really cool. Right near the zoo is the Art Museum (which is also free) and they had a lot of neat exhibits, and I'm not even a huge art fan! It might be a little chilly but I know they run these year round--we went to rent a paddle boat on this lagoon near the Art Museum. The museum and zoo and the Muny Theater are all in this huge park (if you ask at your hotel they could tell you how to get there) and down there is where we rented the paddle boat. We had a blast on it! There's also a cute little restaurant there.

Downtown besides the Arch there's a brand new hotel/casino which was a lot of fun on the weekend nights. It gets very busy down there but it was fun! We also went to a dueling piano bar downtown called The Big Bang which was a TON of fun and the musicians were really great. If you get there before 9, there's no cover. They have a Dave and Buster's in St. Louis which we thought was cool because we don't have one at home and we also went to the new Harrah's Casino, which is near D&B. They have a neat mall with a lot of stores also, and lastly, the Anheueser Busch Brewery tour was neat--it was completely free and you got free samples of beer.

Oh! One last thing--our hotel was about 20 min. from downtown in an area called Westport Plaza. There's a lot of cute restaurants there--probably too cold to sit outside, but they had some good food. There's also a comedy club there that we didn't go to but a lot of people raved about.

Hope that helped some!