...the saga continues

So where were we, oh yeah, Sunday. So my brother Jeremy works for Channel 5 in St. Louis and can usually get pretty good deals to most places in St. Louey. So after dinner Sunday night we were all talking and he asked us what are plans were for the rest of the week. We only had a few things set in stone: I was taking my Mom to her treatment on Monday, Cardinals game on Tuesday that we had purchased tickets for and then another game on the 4th of July against the Cubs that Jeremy had tickets for. Other than that we didn't have any set plans. So Jeremy mentions that he has 4 tickets to Monday nights game that a client had asked about, but he hadn't responded to them. He asked Diego and the boys if they would like to go, UH, HELLO, NEED YOU ASK!!!!!! So Monday morning my Mom and I headed off for the hospital and Diego and the boys went to run a track down the street. Later that afternoon Diego calls me and says that he is at Jeremy's office, (they got downtown a little early and stopped in to say hi). Diego said that they met Jeremy's boss and he was really cool. Jeremy introduces Diego and the boys and then procedes to ask Diego if he and the boys would press passes to go down on the field during batting practice. DO COWS GO MOO!!! He said Jeremy needed to be with them, but had meetings that night, so they were going to use them on the 4th. My children were ecstatic. When they got into the stadium, their first time in the new stadium, they said it was awesome, and the seats that Jeremy had were about 8 rows behind the dugout. WOW! They got some really good pictures. The next night we went to another game, but these seats sucked in comparison. They were out in center field in the bleachers and it was really hot and the sun was right in our face for the first few innings. It was still a great experience, but the seats just didn't compare.

Wednesday was fairly uneventful. My Mom couldn't really go anywhere because she had to wait for a nurse to come and take her IV out from the treatment, so we decided to go see the movie Hancock. It was a pretty good movie.
Thursday we went out to the new St. Louis Mills mall with my Mom and the boys spent the better part of the day in the Nascar mini park. They have all kinds of different activities: indoor and outdoor go-karts, rock climbing wall, miniature golf, arcade games, laser tag and a nascar simulator. We bought all day passes that allowed them to do everything except the simulator as many times as they wanted while Diego, me and my Mom walked around the mall. My Dad, who has been in Idaho until this point, was supposed to fly in that night but his flight got canceled due to the weather in STL, however, being in STL, there were no weather problems that we could see, so he had to spend the night in the Denver airport, because since the cancellation was weather related they weren't giving hotel vouchers or anything. For more on that story, and for those of you who enjoy hearing my fathers saga's, contact him. :)

Friday morning, Ralston and Mark drove in from Tulsa we all spent the day, wait, I spent the day preparing the meat, making potato salad and so on, while we waited to see what was going to be happening with my dad's flight. He was getting in at 1:00 that day so my Mom and I went to pick him up while everyone else stayed home cooking the meat so that it was ready to eat when we got back. Friday night was the Cubs game. Diego, me, our kids, Jeremy, Ben and his wife Stephanie were all going to the game. The only downside was that I didn't have a press pass to go with my family down on the field, or did I?

.....to be continued

Darci and Fam