~ the pollard's ~: St. Louis trip

We got up bright & early Sunday morning to head to the zoo. The original plan was to meet Grandma Mari & Papa Harold at the zoo at opening to enjoy the free stuff during the first hour and have plenty of time before meeting the rest of the gang at the ballpark for a Cardinals game . We overslept an hour and rushed out the door hoping we would enough time at the zoo before heading the 1:15 game. On our way I remembered I didn't load the stroller the night before so we would either be renting one or testing our boys by letting them walk! Annoying, but not a huge deal. It didn't take as long to get there as we thought so we actually ended up parking (the first time) before mom & dad. As Jason started changing the boys out of their pjs I realized I hadn't brought any shoes for them. Of course I had cleaned out the car the night before so they didn't even have their dirty play shoes that are typically in there. This was a huge deal so we loaded back up, found a Target, tried on shoes, bought shoes and drove back to the zoo. We still had time to see all the animals on Kale's list (except the opossums!) He couldn't understand why they didn't have any there :)

We decided to let the boys walk/run/be carried while we were at the zoo. I think the only thing Lane said all morning was "Papa" so guess who carried him most of the time!

Of course we had to take a picture with the gorilla

Lane tried to get in the picture with the next family too

After the zoo we ate lunch (McDonalds) on the way to the ballpark. After parking, walking to the stadium, and finding our seats we met up with the Belts, and Kyle & Stephanie. When we first sat down I wasn't sure how we would make it through the whole game, but the boys settled down and we had lots of open seats around us so they could walk in the rows some and didn't have to stay on our laps the whole time. The Cards came back to win it in the 9th! Thank goodness we stayed :)