St. Louis, here I come!
Well, it's set and I'm so excited!
I'll be taking the train from GR to Chicago on the morning of 9/10 for only $15 as I got a Weekly Special fare. I'll arrive around 10:30a and spend the whole day in Chi-town. Not sure what I'm going to do yet. The White Sox are in town and tickets can be had for cheap on StubHub. Or perhaps I'll finally go to the Science and Industry Museum like I've been meaning to for the past 10 years. Hmmm...
Anyhow, not sure if my cousin Dan will have Wednesday off from work to hang out with me. Thursday morning we will head on the train to St. Louis. I was able to get Weekly Special tickets for only $19.50! Not a huge savings off the regular $23 price, but both are a great deal! We'll arrive in St. Louis at 3:00p and have tickets to the 7:15 Cubs vs. Cardinals game at the new Busch Stadium (purchased through StubHub and printed straight from my printer tonight). I'm a little late paying up on my "best man" present to Dan, a ticket to a Cardinals game at their new stadium. Better late than never. :)
Friday and Saturday will be spent seeing St. Louis. A good portion of one of those days will be at the City Museum climbing all over and through everything they have to see and do. I'm so excited and I've heard great things about the place. Other possible sites include the zoo and a stadium tour. I'm going to look into finding us some loaner bicycles and also a place to stay through Couchsurfing.
Early Sunday morning we take the train back to Chicago and if it's not ridiculously late, we might have a few hours before my train returns to Grand Rapids. The ticket back on Sunday is $40, because Fridays and Sundays get the most traffic on the Pere Marquette route. But, I'll only be spending $97.50 round trip to get to St. Louis and back. That's only $3 more than Greyhound! Good deal!
I'm SOOOO excited! I'm sad I have to leave Amy at home, and she's not terribly happy because I'm leaving her here with the dogs while I go on vacation and there was a bicycle ride we were going to do that weekend, but it was the only time left that the baseball schedule and my work schedule worked out.
EXCITED!!!!
I'll be taking the train from GR to Chicago on the morning of 9/10 for only $15 as I got a Weekly Special fare. I'll arrive around 10:30a and spend the whole day in Chi-town. Not sure what I'm going to do yet. The White Sox are in town and tickets can be had for cheap on StubHub. Or perhaps I'll finally go to the Science and Industry Museum like I've been meaning to for the past 10 years. Hmmm...
Anyhow, not sure if my cousin Dan will have Wednesday off from work to hang out with me. Thursday morning we will head on the train to St. Louis. I was able to get Weekly Special tickets for only $19.50! Not a huge savings off the regular $23 price, but both are a great deal! We'll arrive in St. Louis at 3:00p and have tickets to the 7:15 Cubs vs. Cardinals game at the new Busch Stadium (purchased through StubHub and printed straight from my printer tonight). I'm a little late paying up on my "best man" present to Dan, a ticket to a Cardinals game at their new stadium. Better late than never. :)
Friday and Saturday will be spent seeing St. Louis. A good portion of one of those days will be at the City Museum climbing all over and through everything they have to see and do. I'm so excited and I've heard great things about the place. Other possible sites include the zoo and a stadium tour. I'm going to look into finding us some loaner bicycles and also a place to stay through Couchsurfing.
Early Sunday morning we take the train back to Chicago and if it's not ridiculously late, we might have a few hours before my train returns to Grand Rapids. The ticket back on Sunday is $40, because Fridays and Sundays get the most traffic on the Pere Marquette route. But, I'll only be spending $97.50 round trip to get to St. Louis and back. That's only $3 more than Greyhound! Good deal!
I'm SOOOO excited! I'm sad I have to leave Amy at home, and she's not terribly happy because I'm leaving her here with the dogs while I go on vacation and there was a bicycle ride we were going to do that weekend, but it was the only time left that the baseball schedule and my work schedule worked out.
EXCITED!!!!