Spontaneous

I got a little taste of some of the joy that I'm going to experience as a mother this weekend. I watched the cutest big little boy singing and dancing around the house because he just bought playoff Dodger tickets. He woke up the next morning and reminded me that we were going to the Dodger game. For two days, Josh had a perma-grin and his eyes just sparkled with anticipation.



We woke up on Saturday and started our trek to St. Louis with our Dodger gear in tow. We found out the the drive to St. Lou isn't that far away...only about 4 hours from here. Once we got there, we found our hotel without too much trouble and got checked in after only receiving a little grief for the logos we were sporting.





An old favorite of mine was calling my name for dinner, so we walked to the Spaghetti Factory to enjoy some salad with creamy pesto dressing, bread with garlic butter, pasta of choice, and some spumoni to top it off. I even got a high five with a "Good luck Dodgers, I'm a Cubs fan!" on my way to the bathroom.




We walked through River Front Park (one of my favorite things about St. Louis is that all of the tourist attractions are centrally located - so we just parked our car safely in the hotel garage and walked our little selves around town), took some pictures of the arch, and made our way to Busch Stadium for the game.




We realized when we got there, that we were two small blue fish swimming in a big RED sea! There were not many of our kind there, we were definitely the minority. We only got a few "Boos!" and "Dodgers suck!" on the way to our seats, where we were happy to find out that we were on a row of mostly blue! There were a few Cardinals fans mixed into Section 132, row 29...but most of us were very happy with the game and most certainly the final outcome! I was glad that they won the series last night so I didn't have to talk Josh into remaining strong and not attending game 4 today.







After the game, we enjoyed a night in the big city. Josh had a 'romantic' evening in the hot tub with 4 rowdy little kids staying at the hotel and my pregnant feet. Then we found out that pizza places in St. Louis make delicious pizza and strawberry cheesecake and deliver until 3 in the morning (11 would have been late enough, but it was good news still)!
We attended an awesome testimony meeting today at a small, diverse ward. Then made our trek back home. We had a great trip and will be excited to go back to St. Louis someday.