World Series Champs!!

St. Louis is a very happy city right now - our Cardinals won the World Series!  It's been a crazy couple of months - in August they were 10.5 games back and it looked like they wouldn't even make the playoffs, much less be the champs.  We've had a fun few weeks watching all the playoff games - many of which were nail-biters!  The culmination was Friday night with Game 7 of the World Series.  Jason and I had date night at Buffalo Wild Wings to cheer our Cardinals on to victory.  It was a fun game and we chose a great place to watch it - everyone was wearing red and the whole place would erupt every time something good happened.  By the end of game the whole restaurant was standing and jumping up and down.  Fun times.

Sunday we decided to take Jack and Addi down to see the victory parade.  It was a little chilly and we apparently didn't get there early enough because we didn't have a great view, BUT it was still a fun experience.  I was excited to use the zoom lens on my camera, but when there are rows of people in front of you with their hands up, it doesn't matter how fancy your camera is!  I included a few of the pictures below, but most of my 80 pictures are blurry or blocked by cheering fans.  Ah well.  We have the memories.

Grandma Lang came with us too!

In front of the Arch

The Ashers

Owner Bill DeWitt holding the trophy

MVP and hometown hero David Freese

My favorite!  Yadier Molina

Albert Pujols - quite possibly his last appearance as a Cardinal

Chris Carpenter and family

Matt Holliday

We're Number One!

Are these not the cutest little Cardinals fans you've ever seen?!?

Jack and Addi with cheesy grins

Checking out each other's gloves while we were waiting for the parade to start

Seriously melt my heart.  I told Jack to hold my hand in the parking lot and he wanted to hold Addison's instead.  We're saving this one for their wedding video.

We'll always be able to remember the last two World Series victories - the last one was in 2006, the year we got married and now 2011, the year Charlie was born.

Scary Experience

Last Friday I was working from home, but halfway through the afternoon I decided to head into work to do a few things I couldn't do from home. I was driving on the highway and as I approached the bridge that crosses the Missouri River, there were two cop cars with flashing lights blocking the right lane. I slowed as all the other cars did, and I as I got closer I realized the two cops were out of their cars talking to a woman who was standing on the bridge's railing threatening to jump!! RIGHT as I drove by, one of the cops pounced and dragged the woman off the railing and onto the pavement. Phew! My heart was racing - I've never seen such a thing.

I'm so glad that is what I witnessed rather than the alternative! There was a short blurb about it in the paper - I hope she is getting the help that she needs.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/F13F70C60285ECD58625753200790B38?OpenDocument

Flood

Our neighborhood is up on a hill, so we're not in danger of flooding. However, the main road we take to get to our house is closed about 10 miles north of our turn because it's under water. In addition, there is a sod farm right across the main road from our subdivision (I clocked it with my car, and it's about 0.3 miles from our house) that is under water. I took some pictures to show how close it is to our house. The first picture is from the entrance to our subdivision without using the zoom at all.

This is a road right across from our subdivision:

Again, we're not at risk, but I feel terrible for all of the victims, including our neighbor sod farm.