Well if you found STL to be ugly, and without any natural beauty, then you and MrH would be great friends. LOL
He is an outdoorsman and I suspect we will head for the hills if (when) he gets a better job.
Enjoy the convention at the Lake! There is some beautiful scenery around there, but unfortunately some greedy businessman had the brilliant idea to turn it into a tourist attraction many years ago. Now it is rife with bumper cars and putt putt golf. Blech. Oh and in the summer time there are lots of drunken women riding around in their boats, doing unspeakable things with their swimsuit tops, but something tells me you won't find that as disconcerting as I do.