Day 3 and Day 4, Kansas City and St. Louis

Lots of time to blog tonight as we are lying in bed at our hotel listening to the sounds of the 7th time the fire alarm has gone off in the last two hours.  We were hoping to be asleep a long time ago after back to back full days.

Day 3 started with a quick 3 hour drive from Omaha to Kansas City.  The topic of conversation on the drive centered around corn--how high it grows and how many people it feeds.  Enthralling stuff for elementary aged kids.

When we arrived in Kansas City we stayed at the house of our old friends Eric and Genevieve Jaeger and their 4 kids.  They have an awesome house with a huge back yard...over an acre of grass!  For kids who've been raised in Albuquerque that seemed like Disneyland.  An acre of grass allowed for games of baseball, soccer, bouncing on the trampoline, and sweating like crazy in the midwest humidity.   

That night we went with the Jaegers to see the Royals play the Mariners at Kauffman Stadium and it couldn't have been a better night.  Let me list the reasons:  

1) The Mariners scored 2 runs in the ninth to win 7-5 (That was us you heard cheering your homerun Brad Miller!)

2) It was dollar hot dog night

3) A chance to catch up with good friends we hadn't seen in 2 years

4) Post-game Fireworks....Macy's first time seeing fireworks, and she loved it!

We returned to the Jaegers at midnight, and slept for a few hours before hitting the road at 6:30am for St. Louis.  We drove 4 hours straight to City Museum and watched the kids smile, laugh, run and play for hours in the most unique kids museum I've ever seen.  I'm not sure how to describe it.  It's an old industrial warehouse filled with slides and tunnels that were created out of used industrial materials.  The highlight for the kids was the 10 story slide through the old shoe factory.

  Or maybe it was climbing through wires suspended 40 feet above ground to an old airplane.

Or maybe it was crawling through tunnels that go underneath the building.  Or, playing in an enormous ball pit.

I've never seen anything like it.  But, it was so fun that we had to return later that night after the St. Louis Cardinals game.  

Yes, that's right, 3 straight days of baseball.  Busch Stadium was packed for the Cardinals and the Phillies and the view was as good as it gets from our seats.

This trip has started off as a dream trip for a baseball fan, and tonight I came across this article from ESPN.com that describes so much of our trip  this summer. The article suggests baseball fans travel from Omaha for the CWS to Kansas City for a Royals game, to St. Louis for a Cardinals game.  Done.   

After the game it was back to City Museum for more slides and tunnels.  And, no the kids never hit a wall.  I couldn't believe the amount of energy they had in them after just a few hours of sleep.  We stayed at the Museum until 8:45pm, and the kids would've stayed another 2 hours if we let them.  Mom and Dad are worn out, so needless to say, these fire alarms are coming at the wrong time!  They've stopped for now so hopefully we can get some rest.  We've got 8 more hours of driving ahead of us tomorrow.  But, like Cade told Bryce today, "We're going to look back and say this was one of the funnest days of our trip."  I think he's right.