Aaron and Gabe's adventure to New Busch
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:07 pm
Gabe updated periodically through the day Sunday in his blog. I'm bored so I'll recap our trip.
Thanks to Gabe and our buddy Jon not being outta bed at 10, when we were supposed to leave, we didn't leave until 10:30. The eeeeeee sound I made when passed a dead deer was because there was a car right beside me and the deer was sticking out into our lane so I thought I was gonna hit it. We made good time when I drove but Gabe is a law abiding citizen so he only drove 75 through Illinois as opposed to my 90 through Indiana.
We also spent a good hour and a half trying to explain the IBC and the people in it to Jon. We got to STL in the afternoon and checked into our hotel that Jon's mom paid for so we didn't have to leave after the game was over and drive back home.
We ended up walking 10 or so blocks to Busch from our hotel. The stadium is AWESOME. There is so much cool stuff outside the park, on the sidewalk there's little summaries of important events in Cardinals history listed chronologically, even regular season things like Bob Forsch's no hitter.
We got to the stadium 3 hours before the game. Gabe didn't want to go through the Cards HOF and was too lazy to walk the extra 3 blocks to get to the Arch. Of course as we were leaving yesterday he said "Man I wish we went to the Arch." Lazy. So we just sat outside the stadium until the gates opened. Cards/Cubs is as big a rivalry as there is in baseball, but out here we have a thing called manners and so people are polite to each other. In every group you saw, there were people with Cards gear and people with Cubs gear. It was a really awesome atmosphere. Our seats felt like they were higher than the Arch but you could see everything. We had a great time and Gabe took the Cubs loss well.
If you ever go to a Sunday night game, find food before the game, because if you try to find something to eat after the game, you're gonna drive around STL for an hour trying to find somewhere where the homeless crackheads that sleep in the parks won't stab you. We finally found something and ate. But the journey to find food made me, Gabe and Jon exhausted yesterday. Gabe says I acted like a 3 year old all day because I was cranky. We got home in 4 hours because I drove and that shaved 45 minutes off the trip.
If you ever get an opportunity to go to New Busch, do it. John I know you're going there, so here's some advice. If you need a hotel still, stay at the Millenium. When you watch Cards games, its the hotel that appears to be in the middle of the Arch. Its right by the stadium, you just have to walk through a parking garage to get to it and its pretty nice. When looking for food, walk down past the Arch to a place called The Landing. Its a bunch of old riverfront warehouses from the steamboat era that are now restaurants. Its really nice. We didn't get to eat there this time cause we were so far away but that's where I ate 4 years ago. Go up in the Arch. Make sure to go to Union Station, its a few blocks north of Busch and there's plenty of places to buy Cards gear or stuff for the visiting team. The Brewery is a couple miles from the stadium up Market Street. The food court at Union Station is not any good. Only eat there if you have to have food right then.
Thanks to Gabe and our buddy Jon not being outta bed at 10, when we were supposed to leave, we didn't leave until 10:30. The eeeeeee sound I made when passed a dead deer was because there was a car right beside me and the deer was sticking out into our lane so I thought I was gonna hit it. We made good time when I drove but Gabe is a law abiding citizen so he only drove 75 through Illinois as opposed to my 90 through Indiana.
We also spent a good hour and a half trying to explain the IBC and the people in it to Jon. We got to STL in the afternoon and checked into our hotel that Jon's mom paid for so we didn't have to leave after the game was over and drive back home.
We ended up walking 10 or so blocks to Busch from our hotel. The stadium is AWESOME. There is so much cool stuff outside the park, on the sidewalk there's little summaries of important events in Cardinals history listed chronologically, even regular season things like Bob Forsch's no hitter.
We got to the stadium 3 hours before the game. Gabe didn't want to go through the Cards HOF and was too lazy to walk the extra 3 blocks to get to the Arch. Of course as we were leaving yesterday he said "Man I wish we went to the Arch." Lazy. So we just sat outside the stadium until the gates opened. Cards/Cubs is as big a rivalry as there is in baseball, but out here we have a thing called manners and so people are polite to each other. In every group you saw, there were people with Cards gear and people with Cubs gear. It was a really awesome atmosphere. Our seats felt like they were higher than the Arch but you could see everything. We had a great time and Gabe took the Cubs loss well.
If you ever go to a Sunday night game, find food before the game, because if you try to find something to eat after the game, you're gonna drive around STL for an hour trying to find somewhere where the homeless crackheads that sleep in the parks won't stab you. We finally found something and ate. But the journey to find food made me, Gabe and Jon exhausted yesterday. Gabe says I acted like a 3 year old all day because I was cranky. We got home in 4 hours because I drove and that shaved 45 minutes off the trip.
If you ever get an opportunity to go to New Busch, do it. John I know you're going there, so here's some advice. If you need a hotel still, stay at the Millenium. When you watch Cards games, its the hotel that appears to be in the middle of the Arch. Its right by the stadium, you just have to walk through a parking garage to get to it and its pretty nice. When looking for food, walk down past the Arch to a place called The Landing. Its a bunch of old riverfront warehouses from the steamboat era that are now restaurants. Its really nice. We didn't get to eat there this time cause we were so far away but that's where I ate 4 years ago. Go up in the Arch. Make sure to go to Union Station, its a few blocks north of Busch and there's plenty of places to buy Cards gear or stuff for the visiting team. The Brewery is a couple miles from the stadium up Market Street. The food court at Union Station is not any good. Only eat there if you have to have food right then.