This was the lovely voice of our navigator, Claire. I have been fired from my job and Kevin’s GPS has taken over. I actually like this fact because that means that if we get lost, it is not my fault. It’s Claire’s.

We left our home Saturday morning and our first stop once we hit St. Louis was to go to the Anheuser-Busch Factory. We got the whole tour where we met the Clydesdales and the dalmation dog as well as saw all of the different brewery processes. It was actually very interesting and the nerdy part of me loved learning how things are made. It helped that the tour was free and so was the beer. We love free things!

After we were done with that, we headed to our hotel downtown and got unpacked and then walked over to Busch Stadium for the baseball game Saturday night. Neither one of us are particularly Cardinals fans, but it was still fun to go to a baseball game. Plus, I had been wanted a ballgame hotdog for over a month so I got that wish granted. Since the All-Star Game was on Tuesday night, the field still had the remains of the special mowing job (with the capital building and the arch–the grounds keepers bent the grass to make it look like that!) and, of course, outside around the stadium were still venders selling All-Star crap and stuff.

I was highly disappointed in the game because apparently Albert Pujols is supposed to be a really great player and he hit two home runs the night before, but on Saturday night, the most exciting thing was that he stepped up to the plate. Only literally though. I was hoping for 5 home runs out of him; I didn’t even get one. The other team had one home run, but it was severely anti-climactic because the ball hit the foul pole and bounced back into the field.

All in all, we both had fun at the game (and I kept singing about peanuts and crackerjacks) even though the Cardinals lost and I didn’t get my hoped-for home runs.

Sunday was the day for the zoo. I had been so excited about the zoo, but it as so lame! We should’ve known it would be because it was free. All of the animals looked like they had been shot up with drugs so they were either lying there looking dead or else in hiding. We wanted to see some lions and cheetahs and rhinos, but…well, that didn’t work out. We some saw groundhogs and birds, but I dont’ go to the zoo to see those. I was real animals. We decided that we have been deadened by Planet Earth because we saw so much action and natural-habitat behavior there that the zoo just pales in comparison. Enough with the complaining though. I did see some camels, which are my favorite animal ever, and a giraffe. The elephant laid some turds and the monkeys picked their butts. That’s enough action for me.

Sunday evening we walked over to the Arch and looked around and then we went out for dinner. After that, I got really sick so we ended up back in our hotel with me laying on the bed and Kevin going out to search for a Wal-Greens.

Monday morning, we accidently slept in really late and then walked over to Union Station, which really wasn’t nearly what it was hyped up to be. After milling around there, we got lunch and then walked back to our car where we loaded up and started driving home. The biggest commotion of the weekend was that I lost one of my diamond earrings and I was just devastated over it. (Still am actually.) Unpacking is never fun, but we did several loads of laundry and then hit the bed.

Back to the swing of things. I’m off to work.