So we can add another baseball park to the list, It was a beautiful day to visit Busch Stadium back downtown near the arch. We parked at the nearby Union Station, and took the metro two stops to the stadium. Inside the stadium, we visited the centerfield area for some free ice cream, a spin of the prize wheel (2 baseball cards, 1 stress ball, and 1 batting cage coupon). Trying to get all the shopping completed, we next went into the team store. Fun to shop for some shirts for the boys, but Ruby had enough, and let everyone know in a very crowded store that she was ready to go.
We then hit the Build a Bear workshop that was inside the park...and as always, this place sucked the money from me. Davis, Belle, and Ruby got an animal, and even some Cardinals gear for their new animals. Luckily I had some coupons, and Magan brought some gift cards to make it somewhat reasonable. I justified the extra souvenirs because we got the cheap seats this time, instead of the club seats as in Dallas. After filling up on our shopping, we went up and up and up to our seats in the 400 level. But we were covered, we had a nice breeze, and a cool view of the arch.
So Ruby was mine for most of the game, and is NOT still at all. It is an interesting comparison to my game on 2nd row at Nationals to 4th level seating with 1.5 year old crawling all over you for 7 innings. But I can't say I didn't like it, I got many smiles from that gal. Not much of a scoring game, as the score remained 0 to 0 into the 7th, then 8th, then 9th inning...I bought the kids some dippin dots that were very interesting...Cherry dipping dots with pop rocks in it. Pretty cool, and a winner for the kids. Magan had taken Ruby by this time for a nap in her stroller. And finally in the 10th inning with 0 to 0, we decided to leave.
So back at Union Station, Magan showed us a really awesome section of this old train station where they had a light presentation on the ceiling, and we all sat back on some sofas in this lounge area and watched the lights and images dance across the ceiling, then the lightning erupt from the women sculptures along one wall, and finally a fireworks display (all lights) on the ceiling which was definitely a lot more that I expected. This was neat to visit a place that Magan had such clear fond memories of when she was a kid. The mall is probably not as hopping as it was when she was here before, but it was still very neat to get to see. And Sam was tracking the ball game every where we went...Update 13th inning 0 to 0.
After the Union Station, we went out to the Hard Rock Café for supper. I had the legendary burger and it was great. Game update...Mets score 1 run in the 14th, Cardinals hit solo HR in bottom of 14th to tie it back up. So our meal came to an end, and the game was STILL GOING. Not till we returned to the hotel did the Mets finally win 3 - 1 in the 18th inning. 5.5 hours. I am glad we left in the 10th.
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