Beer, A Giant Arch, and Baseball

So we got on the road around 9 o'clock and headed off for our short drive to St. Louis (~350 miles, but who's keeping track?)  We started off going into Kentucky, on purpose this time, and then headed through Indiana, Illinois, and finally got to St. Louis.  The drive wasn't bad, but nothing really stood out.  The first thing that stood out was seeing the Arch.  It was quite a sight to see, and I never knew how big it actually was.  But for the time being, we had bigger things to do.  We went straight to the Anheuser-Busch Brewery about 10 minutes outside the city.  Right before we drove into St. Louis, we stopped at a gas station to fuel up and when I went in for some water, I saw a 24 oz. can of Keystone Light and Milwaukee's Best Light.  Now I knew we were going on the brewery tour of the home of Natural Light, so I figured let's buy these two giant beers and maybe after the tour we will compare taste and see who can boast the ultimate cheap beer award!  When we got to the brewery, we decided to tailgate and drink the two big beers before we started the tour.  One of the better ideas we have had on the trip.  We both agreed the tour was better than the Miller tour we did last year.  The tour seemed to have a lot more history to it and overall more fun.  After the tour, we got to taste 2 beers, but they did not offer Natural Light, so our experiment did not work, but we still got 2 free beers so I can't complain.  We then set off for the Arch.  Once we got to the Arch Park the weather was beautiful, a little hot, but it was great.  We had a little photo shoot with the arch and then took off for the stadium.  We were planning on tailgating for the game, but found out that doesn't really happen in this city, weird.  But there are bars around the stadium so we figured we would find one and post up until game time.  For some reason, Cardinals fans line up outside of the stadium 2.5 hours before game time.  Every gate had probably 400 people waiting to get in, and it was about 95 degrees out.  I guess they are just that hard core, or maybe they just don't have anything else to do with their time.  So we found a bar, that seemed to be owned by the Cards, so we got one beer there and then headed to the next bar we found, Hooters.  HAHA!!  I just think Hooters is a funny place to go.  But we were there for a while, had a few beers and then headed to the game.  The stadium was actually really cool, for some reason all the seats just seemed closer to the action compare to Citi Bank Park.  The game was actually boring, with no HR's and maybe 2 doubles, besides that it was all singles and walks.  Cards lost 3-1, boo hoo.  Let's go Phils!!  We then headed to the hotel, where we got an upgrade/downgrade.  We signed up for 2 queens, but got 1 king and a free continental breakfast.  At that point, we were both exhausted from a great day and just went to bed to get another early start in the AM.  

ST. LOUIS = GREAT DAY

And now we officially have entered the West...