St. Louis - Cardinals NLCS - Update

WARNING: LOTS OF PICS

As I am sure everyone already knows, me and Trent LOVE to go to baseball games.  Since ball is how we met, this is one thing that we totally enjoy together.  Me nor Trent either one have ever been to a playoff game so several weeks ago, Trent said that if Cardinals or Braves made it to the playoffs that we would go.  I never EVER believed we would actually go though because Trent is not spontaneous and can't do things at the last minute and also, don't want to spend the money. 

Well, wouldn't you know, Cardinals (our favorite team in the National league) made it into the playoffs.  On Saturday, Trent had mentioned going however he didn't sound too serious.  Well, Sunday rolls around and when we get out of church, Trent talks about it coming home and to a HUGE surprise to me, he comes home and starts researching tickets and motel rooms and WE BOOKED IT RIGHT THEN.  Trent is not spontaneous at all so it was VERY surprising that we actually got tickets because it was really pretty much spur of the moment since he had just briefly mentioned it. 

We headed out on Wednesday, got there that night and came back on Friday morning so it was a very quick trip but MUCH needed.  As I had already blogged about it, we knew we would be testing on Thursday and this could be a great celebration or a great thing to take our mind off of things and as it turns out, it was a WONDERFUL thing to help sidetrack our minds. 

Anyways, here are some pictures from our quick getaway.



Coming into St Louis.  Wish I would have thought to take a picture
sooner because I could have gotten a really good one.

Old Courthouse from our Motel Window.  We also had
a view of half of the arch from our room

 A Conan blimp has been flying around throughout the post season games and in this picture, we could see it from our motel window.

Blimp with City view from our window

Fountain with Old Courthouse and Arch at night.

Thursday, I got woke up to Trent sitting up on the side of the bed like something was wrong.  Go figure we would be on vacation and he would get kidney stones.  We don't know yet for a fact that that is what it is however, he has been hurting now for 2 days.  If he is still hurting next week, we will go to the doctor.  After being woke up by this, I went ahead and tested and it came back negative.  Boy, we sure were starting our day out great.  NOT!!!  We just laid around and sulked until a little after 12 then we got up and got ready to go eat and walk around.  While walking around, Trent had to take a break because of his back bothering him so we just sit and chilled out on a bench in downtown St. Louis.

Trent chilling on a bench.

Me and my Trentie chilling downtown St Louis

After we sat downtown, we went and checked out the Old Courthouse which was just some history to St Louis and then we sit on the steps at the Old Courthouse and chilled for a little bit there and took some pictures of the arch.

Sitting on the steps of the Old Courthouse with the Arch in the background

 I just love the arch and I was dying to get some picture of the moon with the arch however, one night the moon wasn't really out due to clouds covering it from rain and then the night that it was shining brightly, we got down to the arch after 11pm and little did we know, no one is aloud in that area after 11pm so we got ran off therefore I was unable to get some cool up close shots of arch and moon together.

Arch with the moon

The first game we went to was Wednesday night.  We did not get into St Louis until just right before 7pm so the first thing we done was went and got checked into the motel.  We did not have tickets for this night but knew we wanted to try to go to it so we dropped our stuff off in the room, turned the TV on and it was in the first inning.  We then walked to the field and luckily basically stole some tickets from a scalper in the 200 section.  We got there during the 2nd inning and Of course it did not rain until we got to the field and then it done the obnoxious steady drizzle for the rest of the game.  They did win this game so we were tickled that we got to make it to this game.  

Seats from Scalper in 200 section

During the game

We had already bought tickets to Thursdays game online and for that game, we sat in the 400 section.  Unfortunately, they lost during this game which tied the series up.

Our seats with city view

Yep, thats right, we got to go to the Playoffs

Field with Blimp and City View

Blimp right over the Arch

Me and Trentie at the game with City view

Anyways, even though we did not get the best of news during our trip and even though Trent was hurting during it, we had a fantastic time and was tickled to death that we got to go.  It most definitely helped to keep our minds preoccupied. 

Now, for a couple more details on our journey, some people keep wondering if we tested too early.  No, I have not started yet and yes, I personally feel that we did test at least 1 day early if not 2 days early however, we DID test on the day that the doctors office told us to.  Even though I have not started yet, I do think I can feel it coming on therefore, I am still not getting my hopes up that it could possibly be a false negative or that I tested too early.  If we are pregnant, then it will just be all that more wonderful and a great surprise but for now, we are just preparing ourselves for another round of it all.  If I have not started by probably Sunday or Monday, I will test again.  Otherwise, once I do start, we will be starting the whole process over again with meds, ultrasounds, and IUI.  I know several people are hoping along with us that we just tested too early however like I said, I REALLY DO NOT feel like this is the case.  I figured I would update everyone so that anyone wondering would know exactly where we are in everything.