St. Louis Trip

Chase and I went to St. Louis for the Cardinals Reds series on the 4th of July- 6th. It was awesome and a lot of fun. We drove up on Monday the 4th and got there just in time to get checked in and make our way over to the ballpark. Our hotel is at the Arch and park and only like 4 blocks from the stadium, perfect location. We had tickets to the Budweiser Suite and it was amazing. (First off we had 4 tickets and Chase sold two of them to a scalper for $100) The box was amazing full of memorabilia and Bud stuff, plus free beer and food all night! Not to mention the best seats and A/C. We had a great time. Chase wants to be buried in the stadium under the Anheuser Busch tile floor now, lol. We won the game 1-0. After the game we went to the Arch to wait for their fireworks. While we were waiting we saw the end of the Montgomery Gentry concert and then we only watched half of the fireworks bc the sucked. After we decided to leave the fireworks we headed to a restaurant in the hotel next to our hotel and it was pretty darn good. The next day we slept in late-ish and got up to walk to the Schlafly Taproom for lunch and then go to the Cardinals Team Store at the stadium. We walked like 16 blocks to the Taproom and they were closed! Chase was so mad. We then headed back to the stadium area and grabbed some lunch at a random place it wasnt great but whatever. We then got to the Team Store and Chase got two shirts for his birthday and I got one. When we left the Team Store we talked to the scalper and got first row tickets! We paid $140 but really it was only $40 since we had got the $100 for the previous days free tickets we had. We went back to the hotel to cool down and then headed down to the second game. This time we were in the first row halfway between home and first base, right at the edge of the dugout. Our seats were right behind the expensive Cardinal Club seats. It was awesome I got a ton of pictures. We started off winning and kept it that way, we won 8-1. It was Chase's Birthday of course so we went to the hotel and ate at the bar. We had some good food and a few drinks. The bartender was really nice but gave me drinks much too strong, I only had two but I was drunk. Luckily, I didnt get sick but I passed out real quick. Day three we had planned to go to the St. Louis Zoo since it was close and free and then try to go to Schlafly again for lunch. We went to the Zoo and turns out its insane there. Parking was crazy we just happened into a decent spot on the road, then we went in and the ma was a complete POS. It did not help at all the entire place was like walking in circles and backtracking to to make sure you saw all the animals and it was always like well which way are we supposed to go now. Plus it was extremely crowded which wouldnt have been such a big problem if people would have payed attention to their children. We had a ton of kids running into us. I was so annoyed, who takes there young children to a crowded place and doesnt watch them at all! It was fun and we were glad we went but we were also glad to leave. We then drove to the Taproom which was open this day and had some lunch. It was good and we got a discount because we sell their beer in the restaurant here in Louisville, how sweet is that? We went back to the hotel got changed and Chase went to trade our 4 party porch tickets to the scalper for two other tickets. He came back with tickets 11th row back at 1st base, seats 1 and 2! Being on the end of the row was excellent, more space and we could get up and down as much as we wanted without bothering anyone. This was Pujols first game back so I got a few good pictures of him. The game started off terrible, we were down by 8 in like no time! But then we started to come back and we did! It was tied 8-8 at the bottom of the 9th so we went into extra innings. No one scored until the bottom of the 13th and we lost by 1. So sad, but at least we won the series and gained the game on the Reds. The only negative thing that happened was that Chase's uncle Francis has been very sick and was dying in Florida the whole time. (His family was already there) His mom started asking him on his birthday to come down to Florida asap. Wednesday morning they decided he would fly out from St. Louis Thursday morning. The game was very late on Wednesday and when we got back to the hotel we had to shower and pack up. We didnt get in bed until 1am and had to be up at 5am. Chase drove us to the airport and I left him there and drove the 4 and 1/2 -5 hours drive home alone. It wasnt the end of the world I made it. We found out Thursday morning his uncle had passed away late Wednesday night. Chase had to stay in Florida until Sunday and he flew home. Saturday they had a big memorial party for his uncle and his entire family was there and they had a great time considering the circumstances. I really wish I could have been there with him.