Andy is finally 21!

My 'baby' brother Andy turned 21 on October 27 so Beth had been planning his big celebration for months.  She reserved hotel rooms in St. Louis and a party bus to take us around town on Friday the 28th.  As luck would have it, the Cardinals made it to the World Series and were set to play game 7 on Friday since a game had been rained out earlier in the week.  As awesome as this was, it kind of put a damper on our ability to bar hop around town.  We started out the evening by hanging out in the lobby for the free happy hour with a ton of Cardinals fans.

Kinley checking out the lights with Aunt Beth

 

Then we headed up to the room to get ready for the big night out.  Scott & I decided that my parents could go on the party bus first and then they would come back to switch so we could go out.  

Aunt Cora & Kinley

Watching the action on TV

Kinley got to witness her 1st World Series at the hotel right across from the stadium & her 1st World Series victory from the Cardinals.  Very cool for a 1 month old!

Me, Liz, & Gayle on the bus

We boarded the bus & decided to try to make it out of downtown to a bar but that proved to be nearly impossible.  The town was packed with ecstatic Cards fans celebrating the huge victory - it was awesome to witness!  Traffic was still bumper to bumper so by the time we got to the highway it was 12:30.  We decided to circle back around a go to a couple bars near SLU to get Andy his birthday drinks.

Sibling pics in the bar (minus Cora!)

Mommy & daddy's 1st night out!

The plunger shot, ha!

We made it back to the hotel around 1:30am and by the time we settled down and got Kinley fed it was past 3:00am.  Kinley decided to wake up a little after 6am - yikes!  Even though we were running on 3 hours of sleep the next day, it was so worth it to celebrate such a fun birthday with my bro!