Apr 21, 2009

St. Louis Cardinals Opening Week Games

We have gone to two Cardinals games in the past two years and somehow managed to have the opportunity to attend three games on the 2009 opening week. How did this happen you ask? Well...

1.) Being the "like-lightning" runner that Andrew is, he won us the April 7th bleacher seat tickets by coming in 1st place at the SODA 5k run in Jerseyville, IL. (And just for your info: I also won us some Cardinal tickets, but those aren't until the end of August.)

2.) Friday nights game (April 10th) was by far the best seats we will ever get to sit in. We were behind home plate and about 13 rows up. Skip, the son of Bill (Great friend of Andrews and highschool employer), had two extra tickets and called Andrew up to ask if we wanted to go. Well of course we did!!

3.) Easter Sunday was the only planned game we had tickets for. These seats were in the all-inclusive scoreboard area. We were glad Andrew's dad and dad's wife were able to join us because we had a lot of fun spending time with them. Great seats in the outfield, as well as free food and drinks... can't get much better than that!

Now that you know a little bit about how we managed three games in one week, I will inform you the Cards won every game (9-3, 5-3, 3-0)! We would like to think we are good luck, but I'm sure it had more to do with the almost full moon! Little did we know we would have to break out our winter coats, gloves, blankets and hand warmers for April, but both Tuesday and Friday's games were in the high 30s and low 40s, with wind.

Each game was exciting with home runs... Pujols actually hit a homer about 10 yards to the right of us while sitting in the bleacher seats. Molina, Duncan, and Ludwick also ripped them into the stands. All in all, we had great seats for all 3 games. Each game we had a different view and I don't think I could even pick a favorite. I had my camera for each game and would like to think they all turned out great. Got some action shots, pictures of the stadium and pics of us while at the game.

Below you will see pictures from game 1. Look for posts with pictures of game 2 and 3 in the near future!! Enjoy!



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