Take me out to the Ball Game!

Hmmm, its been a while since I've written in my blog. Sorry, blog, but my life is somewhat boring right now. This past week has been mostly work, come home, eat dinner, go to sleep. Not something anyone wants to read about.

One thing to note is that we went to the Cardinals game on Friday night against the Astros with some friends, Matt and Beth. It was the first one I've been to this year.


We had great seats on the third base line (Thanks, Matt's Dad!). We were under an overhang, so no foul balls. Oh well. It was a nice night...it had rained most of the day, so I thought it was going to rain during the game too, but we were lucky.

After the seventh inning stretch we went to the Party Porch. It was only up one level from our seats. Its basically a bar that anyone can go to and you can still watch the game on the field or on TV. And they served beer even after last call (that's why we after the seventh inning).

Even better than an extended time for drinking... the Cards actually won! They have been in a pretty bad drought lately. They've been struggling and it didn't help when one of the pitchers, Josh Hancock, was killed in a car wreck a few weeks ago. They had a memorial tribute to Hancock on Friday, but we missed it. Saw part of it on TV and it looked very nice. Seems like a lot of the players will really miss him. I just hope people learn from Hancock's mistakes by not drinking and driving instead of making them again.

Opening Day!

Before I say anything...an update on our bunny situation: There have been no more bunnies left on our front steps so we feel it was just a cat who found a nest and wanted to show us what he did. Good for it, now on with our lives.

Baseball is here again! I like baseball, it means summer is here!

Its pretty odd that the defending champs (St. Louis Cardinals) lost on their opening day (luckily we watched it with Amy and Ryan so we could at least entertain ourselves by socializing during the boring game) and the Kansas City Royals won. Oh well. Cards had a bad regular season last year and looked what happened. KC had a good start last year and...oh well, never mind. I will always love my KC Royals because they are the team I grew up rooting for with my Dad. When we would visit KC we'd always try to go to a baseball game since Phoenix didn't have an MLB team at the time. Unfortunately, I've never known them when they have been good. I was only 5 when the won the series and I had an even shorter attention span than I do now (if that's even possible), so I doubt I watched games. But be careful while in St. Louis if you like the Royals at all. If you even mention the 1985 World Series that KC won and STL lost, you will get into it with someone. Apparently there was a bad call. And because of that, they think St. Louis should've won. I don't know, it was so long ago I can't believe they haven't let it go, but they haven't so this is your official warning. Anyway, I feel I can honestly say I am a fan for both teams. Since they are in different leagues its allowed to be a fan of both unless they play each other. When they do play each other, I root for the Royals (as I normally root for the underdogs anyway.) Since I'm in St. Louis and go to more Cardinals games than I do Royals game, we support the local team with our little flag.

Summer is almost here!

This is my favorite time of year. I love it when the days start to get longer... I'm wearing lighter jackets...and the fruit stand on Caulks Hill Road is open. It also reminds me that I need to start planning what we want to do for summer. Forget the new year, I make resolutions for the summertime. I feel like summer is such a short time of year, filled with weddings, and visits to family, and yard work. I enjoy two out of three of those, but it feels like your summer is always planned for you and that trip you wanted to take to Chicago gets lost in the shuffle. Then September rolls around (aka football season) and weekends are filled with college gameday and NFL Sunday. So this year, I'm going to make summer time plans and stick with them! I put up a list on the sidebar for stuff I want to do this summer. Last summer we talked about going to Kentucky Lake for a weekend and renting a houseboat, but never did it. I still have not been to the Hermann wineries or even Chicago since I've lived in St. Louis. Easy road trips! So this year, I'm going to get it together and plan stuff and do it!

Another thing I've been wanting to do is to find a place to go hiking. I mean some place other than the Katy Trail. I want to actually climb and not just walk. When I was in Australia we were there over a weekend and had some time to kill. So why not climb a little mountain? It was a place called Devils Peak (highest peak in picture on left) and was in Quorn, South Australia. Pronounced like "Corn" and there was a rock with "Quornies Rule" spray painted on it. Why didn't I take a picture of it, I ask myself that everyday. Sigh. Anyway, it was quite a hike...took us about an hour to get to the top...and it was a beautiful site. It was a bit hazy out, but we could just barely see the ocean on one side and the country with mountain goats and cows on the other. I think I did pretty good. It was tough for a while (taking a break in pic on the right) and I wanted to quit, but I had to see the view from the top.



I used the "I wanna take a picture" excuse for mini breaks on the way up...




Views from the top!