Next up, Barbecue and fireworks! Just outside the door of the hotel, Braxton saw something that made his eyes about pop out of his head! He just recently saw Transformers 4 with Rich so spotting "Optimus" really got the kid excited! Optimus Prime is basically any blue semi truck we drive by. Just like Bumblebee is any yellow car with black racing stripes. Standing up next to this truck made B realize just how little he is : ) He was STOKED when I told him he could go stand by it... If you know my son, you know this made his DAY!
After the first of many meals filled with delicious meat and regret on our vacation, we headed out to Mascoutah, a little tiny town not too far from where we were, to see their big fireworks show! I was blown away! This was a killer fireworks show for a big city, let alone a one gas station town! We will be back! It helped ease the sadness of not going to our "spot" in St. Louis that we have spent the 4th at every year since we moved here. We had a great night!
What's a weekend celebrating 'Mrca without a ball game? I know, everyone is super shocked that we had to squeeze in a Cardinals game. It was hot and we were very damp, but SO worth it for a Saturday afternoon at the ballpark! Grandma spoiled us with Ben & Jerry's and a bottomless helmet of caramel corn... yah - that was a self control dilema I would rather not discuss... let's just say the helmet won. Almost all of us had a fantastic time. Once Braxton realized that there was no chance we would win this game he was BEYOND DEVASTATED! He was so upset! Broke my Mommy/Cardinal-lover heart real quick. Braxton, please accept my apology for posting this. I know you will hate me for a little while, but I love this picture too much not to share it. It just shows how much heart you have kiddo, and how much you FREAKING LOVE THE CARDINALS!!! Hopefully you will find it in your huge heart to forgive me : )
Sunday we went to church, relaxed, and hung around the hotel. We took over the breakfast area and had a huge linner (you know, church goes through lunch and you are WAY too hungry to wait for dinner? Linner!) Then we took some sweet naps and played some heated games of Uno on Grandma and Papa's hotel bed. It was a great Sunday!
Monday we headed out to Eckert's Farms to Papa's heaven - aka the blackberry patches! We picked blackberries like mad and most of us had very sick tummies since eating while you pick is encouraged. Yah - free blackberries off the vine if you eat them right there - we ate A LOT OF BLACKBERRIES! We also picked A LOT OF BLACKBERRIES! Papa was in the zone picking like there was no tomorrow! It was pretty hilarious. Pretty sure Papa bought over 10 POUNDS of them. The first few days the kids could not get enough and I kept catching them sneaking into the fridge and stealing them. Papa made Blackberry Crisp THREE nights in a row on our vacation because there were never any leftovers and, let's face it, we had plenty of 'em! Three weeks later...Me: "Guys, eat some blackberries, please!" Kids: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! PLEASE DON'T MAKE US!!!!!!!!" We might not ever eat blackberries again, but MAN they were good! My favorite pic - B trying to thumbs-up power his way through a way too sour one that he insisted was ripe and turned his cheeks inside out. BAHAAAA
Aaaaaaaand maybe that night we went to ANOTHER Cardinals game... maybe...
Aaaaaaaand maybe it stormed on us more than once. The pictures of the clouds rolling in were so cool! Aaaaaaaaand maybe the freezing cold, poring rain made it that much more fun and memorable. Why? Because we are BOWMANS! WE ARE HARD CORE! Bailey wasn't upset at all with the rain. She just wanted to catch rain drops on her little tongue : ) Aaaaaaaaand maybe we still got a very sad Bracky face when the Cards were down a couple runs, but we pulled off a win! Another fabulous night making ballpark memories! GO CARDS! Now it's off to bed and up early in the morning for the REAL vacation to start! Next post people... stay tuned : )
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