Minneapolis

What a great short long weekend we had!!! Sounds so funny to say it that way, but we enjoyed ourselves so much, it just went too quickly. Unlike here at home, it rained at some point almost every day we were gone!! My tomato plants reflected just how badly we needed back here when we arrived home!!

The kids and I took off early on Thursday and headed to Medford to do some shopping for school clothes. Chad drove up with his parents after work. We didn't arrive in Minneapolis until late and it became even later when we couldn't find our hotel!!! Who knew there could be 4 Hilton hotels in a 5 mile radius!!!??? We stopped at every single one of them!! It was a good laugh for that late at night!!! We enjoyed time at the Mall of America and IKEA the next day because it was raining. The girls were super excited when they were surprised with the opportunity to pick out the bigger American Girl doll (which they had been begging for for their birthday this November) and chose the dolls that looked like them!!!! So Emma, Ana's doll, and Melissa, Mia's doll, have now joined our family. I don't think they have hardly put them down since they got them! Kale, being the simple boy he is, got a big bucket of legos from Lego Land and is in heaven with those!!! ME, I was excited to find the handles that I really wanted for my kitchen cupboards at IKEA for HALF the price of Menards...and for Chad - the pure excitement of getting to put them all up for me!! HA HA For some reason, I highly doubt he is as excited about it as I am!!!

The rest of our time was spent at the Como Zoo, Underwater Adventures at the Mall of America, and the pool. It's always nice to get home, but it always seems to take me the whole next week to get everything put away, laundry done, etc.