my friend and i have made a tradition out of attending the St. Louis Art Museum's annual Art in Bloom exhibit, where local St. Louis florists create floral interpretations of pieces of art on display in the museum. it is truly a unique and exciting show, the museum is always packed with excited art appreciators! my friend and i love all things art and museums.
we left Columbia, Missouri for St. Louis bright and early that Saturday morning. we stopped in Clayton, Missouri for an early lunch. exploring the streets of Clayton we stumbled upon a neat salad shop (my friend is vegetarian, so we needed a place with good veggie options!) called Wicked Greenz. this spot offered several salads, salad toppings, and the option to keep your salad in a bowl or wrapped into a wrap! i ordered the mexi-cali salad with chicken as a wrap - it was super fresh and delicious, in addition to the trendy atmosphere the salad shop provides. Wicked Greenz was a great sit down, healthy fast food choice! after lunch we went to the museum, parking was crazy (long story, but i had a person 100% take a parallel parking spot from me while i was reversing into the parking spot!) - Art in Bloom has definitely grown in popularity since attending last year! this year my friend and i were able to order the event's signature cocktail, the fleur de lis - it was so good (i believe it was sprite, rose water, vodka, and some other ingredient! so worth it). we walked around the museum looking at new installations and pieces that had a corresponding floral arrangement. some of this year's arrangements were not hits with us, my friend and i agreed that several arrangements too closely mimicked the piece of art being portrayed and weren't creative interpretations by the florist. we were also displeased that several works of art that were selected to have accompanying floral arrangements were pieces of art that depicted flowers (such as still life paintings of flowers in vases), in that case the floral interpretation was almost identical to what was shown in the artwork. we hope that next year will include more creative approaches by florists and that also works of art with flowers already depicted will not be selected as pieces for florists to interpret. overall the show was beautiful as usual (i had several favorites, you can check them out in the above image gallery!) and we can't wait to attend Art in Bloom 2018! before we headed back to Columbia we sat down for coffee at a place i found on apple maps (and it was a complete score of a find!) called Comet Coffee, i've actually passed this place several times while on the interstate and always wondered if it was good. Comet Coffee has quite the bizarre parking situation going on at the building it is located at... i have certainly never had to partake in a back-in only parking spot... but a little known fact about myself is that i love parallel parking so i was more than eager for the parking challenge! my friend and i got our traditional coffee house orders: me a vanilla latte and her a chai latte. i really hate chai, but evidently her chai latte was delicious and so was my vanilla latte. Comet Coffee was your typical hipster coffee shop, so the interior and vibes were just the fuel we needed to make our way back to Columbia. so happy to have a friend who enjoys art museums, travel, and coffee shops just as much as i do! until next year, Art in Bloom 2018.
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