These first three are pics of Albert Pujols.


This is Yadier Molina catching for the starting pitcher before the game. We were standing right above him watching, and everyone was yelling his name, " Yadi, Yadi, Molina, etc." Diego told Miguel to call out 'Boriqua' and said that any time you call a Puerto Rican 'Boriqua' they will know that you know where they come from. (Before Puerto Rico was Puerto Rico, is was called Boriquen (?)). So they stopped for the National Anthem and Yadi went under the overhang. When the National Anthem was over, he came back out and got into position to start catching again. Right then Miguel yelled out "Boriqua", and Yadier immediately looked straight up at us and had a huge grin on his face, you could see it through his facemask. But unfortunately, Diego didn't have the camera ready to snap the picture. It was pretty cool.

The public is allowed into the stadium two hours before the game. Almost everyone goes right down to the rail and waits for the players to come sign autographs after batting practice. No one came the two times we were there, but we got some awesome close up pictures.

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I put descriptions in, but they didn't come through. They are pretty self explanatory. :)

Pics

This is what you see coming into St. Louis from the west.
What an awesome scene
The new Busch stadium
Our first game at the new stadium

...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

Vacation

So we just got back from our family vacation to St. Louis. It was a blast. Pics will come later.
We got there on Thursday the 26th, pretty late due to delayed flights :(. First stop the next morning, TED DREWES FROZAN CUSTARD. For those of you who aren't familiar with Ted Drewes, it is awesome. There are only two locations in the world and they are both in St. Louis, and my parents were kind enough to buy a house (20years ago) a block away from one of the locations, and the other one is maybe 10 miles away. We visited it alot. They make great concretes as well as banana-splits and a variation of other frozen custard desserts.
My dad was actually in Idaho/Utah for the first week we were there and my mom is going through chemo right now for colon cancer so she is tired alot and didn't feel like she could do a whole lot, so Friday we went to see the new Indiana Jones movie and then just hung out the rest of the evening. Saturday we went out to this great new mall called St. Louis Mills. It has all kinds of outlet stores, Nascar racing entertainment center, an ice rink and an 18 screen theater. It was huge! It took most of the day. During our visit to the Mills, we had picked out some shirts and other Cardinal souvenirs and when we went to pay our Visa was declined. We just figured that it was probably due to the fact that we don't use it alot and so it was flagged to make sure we were the ones using it and because it was a Saturday I couldn't call about it. So we used the only cash we had taken and then had to just use our debit cards.
Sunday was pretty uneventful, we went to church and then both of my brothers, Jeremy and Ben, and Ben's family came to my mom's for dinner. It was great to see them again and get to know Ben's boys again, it always takes so long for them to warm up to us.

.....to be continued.

Darci and family

Anything else??????

Okay, so this week was really not the best in the WWT (Wonderful World of Technology).

A week ago Sunday, while watching our marvelous technological device that allows us to pause live TV, didn't allow us to pause live TV. Our DVR wouldn't rewind so we decided that instead of calling Direct TV and having them tell us to reset the machine, we would just reset it ourselves. It stuck on the same 'Step 1 of 2, this may take a few minutes' for the entire week until Friday when the technician came out to replace the box. He didn't have a replacement box, so he returned on Sunday with the replacement and finally got everything to work.

In the meantime, Diego calls me at work on Friday and said the he turned on the computer and it wasn't doing what it was supposed to be doing. The only thing that would let him get anywhere was to push F10. Now, for those of you who pay attention when your computer is booting up, you know that F10 is the system recovery. IT ERASES EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!! So he calls me back a little later and says that we have a "brand new computer". Everything was gone. All of our pictures, iTunes stuff, files, programs. It reset to factory settings. :(

As wonderful as technology is, it really sucks.


So, hindsight being 20/20 and all, BACK UP YOUR PHOTOS AND FILES to be on the safe side.

Love to all
Darci