May 21, 2013
Our conference was in Minneapolis so we had to travel a bit further to get there. Our hotel was great. We were downtown and in the middle of a thousand restaurants and shops. The only bad thing was that we'd packed for late May where we live. When we got to Minneapolis there were people in coats! It was really COLD! It just took us off guard. We shopped around a bit for hoodies and long sleeves, but they were mostly gone from the stores. We did our best anyway!
We spent an afternoon at Mall of America. How could we resist? The kids had a blast. Miss L got to ride a roller coaster with her dad and since it was a weekday during the school year it was really empty. Yay!
Here's the view from our room. The kids loved standing in the window and checking out the "ant" people below. :o)
Sweet little man is usually a pretty easy guy but hotels just aren't his thing. He has a TERRIBLE time sleeping. So... this is what happens to you when you don't sleep all night!
One afternoon we decided to head to St. Paul to the children's museum there. All of the kids had so much fun. Here's sweet little man helping the piggie pirates count their treasure.
Miss L and Mister W are working in the animal rescue center.
Who's that turtle? Oh! It's miss L.
...and it really doesn't matter WHERE the children's museum is, our favorite room is ALWAYS the water play area. We spent a good deal of time here and actually stayed until it was almost time to close the museum!
We love to eat and enjoyed finding some interesting places to visit. This was one where we enjoyed breakfast on our last day.
I'm not sure if you can tell but he really loves that pancake. :o)
Our last day included a visit to this really awesome park. I wish I could remember or find the name for it, but it was AMAZING! We'd gotten rained out of another fantastic park earlier in the week and I think that everyone was glad to burn off some steam (and be away from the hotel... not much for three kids five and under to do in a 400 square foot room without any toys). We had a picnic and then enjoyed some climbing time!
After that it was back to the hotel room to wait for Brad's finish to the day. Poor mister W ended up banging his head on the corner of the table and WOW did it bleed! He was pretty proud of his washcloth though and so we took a photo. :o)
