St Louis

From Kentucky, St Louis is the start of a seven game in seven days run, the longest on this trip….

I was in a bad mood before the game even started because we got put in a stinky smoking room. They didn’t tell us ahead of time, but it was a smoking floor which was obvious from the second you stepped off the elevator. I tried to get us switched, but they were “sold out” for the night. They offered an ozone machine which would “completely remove all the smell” I overheard a guy next to me canceling his reservation for the evening as his plans had changed at the last minute. I asked if we could have his room and was basically told that because we made our reservations on Hotwire (albeit in MARCH) we were entitled to no such luxury as a non-smoking room and that would be reserved for someone else – they would call if nobody else wanted the room the guy had just given up. You see that room “is in a whole different tower”; whatever that means.

All of the clothes that we had just washed in Kentucky would now smell like smoke. We did get the ozone machine and a new set of sheets and it was okay. It is really too bad because we had a great view and awesome sunrise of the arch and we have to stay at this hotel again on our way back to the west coast – reservation also through Hotwire – nonrefundable! UGH!

The game itself was nice and we sat in the outfield bleachers. We had entertaining fans all around us and the game was between two teams that we had seen before. Good food overall and we even saw a little pre-game show of local middle school and high school dancers in the concourse. I was feeling a little better.

We left early the next AM to make it to Chicago for an early afternoon game. Here is a pic of the only good thing in our stinky hotel room - a wonderful wonderful wonderful sunrise view of the arch, front and center.