Busy day!!!

We left the treehouse by 9am and headed about 90 min toward St Louis, hitting the Bourbon trail.

First stop was Woodford Reserve which was very buegoiuse looking. The clientele there were grey haired and very classy looking. As we were less then 2km away and we are only here once I suggested we make a stop at Castle and Key distillery.

The grounds were beautiful, with green grass and a riverfront. There was corn hole for kids and even a food truck. I did a gin flight tasting which was ordinary. Josh had a whisky cocktail before we got back in the car to keep going to our final destination, St Louis.

On our way we ended up driving through Indiana and Illinois to get to Missouri, which I did not realise was going to happen. We also gained an hour as we moved through a time zone.

We got to our cute little Airbnb in the St Hampton area or St Louis. Ed and Cheryl met us at the door to show us to the back area which we rented out. We had the front porch. Main bedroom and back bedroom with bunks. My misread of the Airbnb description as we didn’t have access to the kitchen, but we did have a small fridge, table and coffee area.

We didn’t hangout long, dropped our bags in the rooms and headed into the city to catch a MLB baseball game, St Louis Cardinals and Arizona Diamondbacks.

The whole experience was different than what we expected as it all started with Josh not being able to bring in his backpack as it was too big, but also has he had bug spray and that’s not allowed. While we were working out logistics and tickets and one working phone (as the kids and I were already in the stadium) one of the attendance was questioning what we were doing. She then realised we were tourists from Australia.

Long story short, once Josh got back in, we moved from our original seats looking over the whole stadium on level three to an upgrade on level 1 not far from 1st base. We were also given Cardinals shirts, and bobble heads and kept on being checked on.

Not only was the staff amazing at Busch stadium but the people we saw near were also very welcoming. The bi racial lesbian couple in front of us, both named April, gave the kids raw peanuts and a when she went to the bathroom, she came back with a small Basbeall bat and ball for both kids. All she asked in return is for the kids to be kind.

The whole experience of the evening shows the true American spirit.

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