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posted by Shalar @ 9:09 PM   |
| Wednesday, June 18, 2008 |
Well, as we anticipated, midwest flooding has caused our trip this year to end a bit early. Despite the graphic, as Kris said, we didn't intend to attempt the White Sox at Cubs game this weekend because we can kind of go to Chicago anytime so didn't feel very into paying hundreds of dollars to get tickets for that. We were to end in St. Louis, however, at the new Busch Stadium which is located near the river. The Cardinals don't seem worried about being able to continue to play there this week, but we were worried about trying to navigate the trip south to get there. Many of the towns near the Mississippi down that way are evacuating and/or otherwise gearing up for bad times as their crests are expected Thursday and Friday. We just decided it wasn't worth the risk, and honestly it gave us headaches trying to keep up on road and bridge closures due to flooding. Plus all it would take is someone's levee to break and it would mess everything up. We hope to be able to catch it another time soon, it looks gorgeous. A big bummer is that my sons were supposed to join us for that game then we were going to have a little weekend vacation in St. Louis and they're very disappointed, but what can you do?
Good news is that I'm home, and Kristina is visiting family down near Burlington for a bit before heading home herself.
I'll take this opportunity to thank Kris for the really nice words on this blog for my birthday. She is an awesome travel partner as well. We have similar styles and preferences for tripping - sleep in when possible, no big concern for getting to games necessarily on time, listen to and sing 80s music on the XM radio, etc. Our one sore point of having to share a computer last year was eliminated this time, so no issues. Anyway, I'm glad we have this baseball interest to share and neither of us thinks the other is crazy for wanting to take a trip like this. I literally couldn't make this trip without her (mostly because I'm very poor and she does pretty much all of the planning. And driving, which we've covered, since we wanted to use her hybrid vehicle). So thanks, Kris, love ya! |
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