St. Louis Cardinal Fun!

Earlier in the year, we had signed up Matthew & Jacob to be in the Cardinals Crew Kids' Club. One of the benefits of being in the club is that they were invited to an end-of-year Fiesta at Busch Stadium. That Fiesta was this past Saturday! So...we headed to St. Louis early Saturday morning and met Paul & Kristi (my brother & sister-in-law) at the Pujols 5 restaurant in Westport Plaza for lunch. What a fun place. Unfortunately, I completely forgot to take any photos. (Scrapbook girlfriends...you'll appreciate this...my husband went back in to the restaurant to pick up a coaster...he thought I might like it for our scrapbook! I did not even ASK him to do that...he thought of it all on his own...can you believe it???)

After lunch we headed downtown to Busch Stadium, Gate 5, at the Ford Plaza area. The party consisted of players signing autographs, a Tony LaRussa Q&A session, free food & drinks, & a 20% off coupon for the Team Store. We listened to Tony LaRussa for a while, then stood in line and got one autograph...Brad Thompson (pitcher)...Matthew got his hat signed on the outside, and Jacob got his signed on the inside of his hat. Other players that were there were Adam Wainwright (his line was VERY long), Josh Kinney, Russ Springer, Ryan Franklin, Jason Motte, Kyle McClellan, Brendan Ryan & Chris Perez. I did get photos of the backs of some of the players...they were just a few feet away!

After that we headed to the Team Store there at the Stadium and we bought each of the boys a little momento...Jacob chose a leather keychain with "Pujols" on it...Matthew chose a bracelet with "Pujols" on it. Are we Pujols fans or what???

After the party, we headed back to the van to rest for a while. We had free tickets to the game that evening at 6:15. We were in Big Mac Land! We were handed foam French Fries to wave, bumper stickers with "BML" on them, coupons...and more coupons. We had a great time...the Cardinals won 8-5. We got to see another awesome Pujols homerun, and two other homeruns...I can't think of who they were...and lot of hits from both sides. It was a great game. Glad the Cardinals won! Great memories!

I'll post a couple of pictures tomorrow...I've got to get back to my Bible Study for Thursday!