Nauvoo Trip and Baseball too

John and I talked during our visit on Christmas how fun it would be to go to St. Louis and go to a ballgame, travel up to Nauvoo for 3 days and then end up in Chicago and go to a Cubs game. Well, this is exactly what we did and had a wonderful time! We arrived on Friday afternoon and attended a night game between the Cards and Angels. Here are some pictures of the ball park and the game. What great devoted fans and a great place to watch a game. John did a great job in getting us tickets which he did several months ago.

After the game we went to our motel room and decided we would get up at 7:00 am and get ready and head up to Nauvoo. I woke up a little before 7:00 and John was still sound asleep, so I got up and showered, repacked, and read my scriptures, but at 8:00 John was still sleeping. I put my foot on his bed as I was reading and he sat stright up, looked around and I then asked him how he slept. He could not hear me so he took out his earplugs. I asked him how long he had been wearing earplugs and he said that was his first time. He woke up at 1:30 am to my snoring and could not go back to sleep.

He decided he had to do something to get some sleep, so he dressed, went downstairs and asked where the nearest all night pharmacy was and drove there, picked up some earplugs and for good measure sleeping pills as well. He was still a little groggy but did get ready and we headed up to Nauvoo. He was still a little groggy for some of the day....not sure how many pills he took.


This is the outside of the ballpark in St. Louis as we were walking up to the front gate. What a crowd they had even 2 hours before the game started.

Here is John as we are waiting in line to get in. As you can see it was nice and warm and were anxiously wating to eat the 3 hot dogs we devoured. Reminded me of when he was a boy and taking him to see the A's play in Oakland. We always took a bagful of junk food plus eating hot dogs, ice cream, and soda. Usually John would have to lie down in the back of the car because his stomach hurt. Wonder why???

Here is just one of the lines outside the ballpark waiting for the gate to open. It seemed like everyone was wearing red which is the Cardinals team color.

Just one shot of the ballpark as we went out to right field during batting practice. John got great seats for both games and sat on first base line near right field and very close to the playing field.

I bet you think these are two of the players before they dressed and went out to the field. No, just John and I with the caps we bought before we ate 3 hot dogs. Well, as I think about it, we had already eaten at least 2.