St. Louis
Well, I have put off blogging long enough. The first half of this week I was in St. Louis for work (the company has a fair sized office complex in St. Louis). I had to train a couple of people on some programs I finished earlier in the year. After the five hour drive, I was pleased when I arrived at my hotel. I stayed at a Marriott right next to the St. Louis International Airport, as in 1,500 feet away from the airport. I lucked out and got a corner room on the fifth floor. So, I had a huge window along each wall of the corner. This meant I had a prime view of the airport. I have enjoyed playing flight simulators for years, so naturally I enjoy watching airliners landing & taking off. Yes, I know I am a geek.
Anyway, I was there for two and a half days of meetings. Interestingly, it just so happened that the company had some Cardinals tickets (Cards vs. Brewers) they weren’t using (the customer service department there regularly gives out baseball tickets as incentives for high customer service scores for the employees) and the group of people I was meeting with and I caught the game on Monday. As you can see in the image I hijacked from Wikipedia, the second incarnation of Busch stadium has a wonderful, open view to the St. Louis skyline. We had pretty good seats as well, along the third base line about 15 rows up on the bottom level. Unfortunately, the wonderful venue just couldn’t compensate for the 95 degree game time temperature with a billion percent humidity. It was miserable weather, but the game was good. So, overall it was a good trip.
On a completely unrelated note, I found out the other day that Nashville will have a Weihnachtsmarkt(a Christmas street market if you didn’t know) this Christmas. NashvilleChristmasMarket.com states that “Beginning this year, Sister Cities of Nashville and partners in our sister city of Magdeburg, Germany will bring a month-long traditional Christmas market to downtown Nashville during the holiday season. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, Nashville’s Hall of Fame Park will be transformed into a holiday village, where visitors can enjoy German food and drink specialties, experience holiday music and entertainment, and purchase authentic German ornaments, nutcrackers, puppets, and other crafts.” I am excited to see how authentic it is going to be. Magdeburg was my last area on my mission. In fact, if you have never heard the story about some Nashville-Magdeburg sister city events that happened while I was there, you can read about it here.
Congrats on your mowing. I believe Dad had riding mowers part of your youth, but I think he rode and had you kids push and weedeat. But there was a long time it was cut with a push mower. Maybe that is how you stayed so nice and slim. hmmmmmmnrnrI will look forward to the German street fair. I am working on getting a handicap scooter. That should let me go more places and enjoy myself.nrnrToo bad it was so hot for the St. Louis game. Bet it was fun anyway.