Wow, what a game lastnight! We couldn't believe that the Jets held on for the W in Minneapolis/St. Paul!! Our Minnesota friends couldn't either. According to Jamie's dad, it was the two refs from Winnipeg that helped the Jets to secure the victory. I thought it was more the absence of the Wild offense that helped.
Whatever the case may be, we came out ontop and need another W tonight vs. St. Louis.
Lola is driving so it's Arizona Adam at the small keyboard (on his iPhone).
Today we did some shopping before starting the trek back to the 204. Lola wanted to check out Kohls, Michaels and DSW Shoes in Maple Grove, on our way out of Minneapolis.
The Maple Grove excursions wasn't as Lola had hoped. Micheals was a flop, kohls didn't have any shoes she wanted and neither did DSW. However while searching for DSW, which Lola claimed she knew where it was ("by a Costco... I think), we found a Jo-Ann's fabrics and stopped in. Lola was super excited because she FINALLY found some more markers for her Cricut. Now she is armed with more colours for some new card creations.
And, Lola was right - DSW was by a Costco.
After Maple Grove, we drove 20 mins to Albertville where AA wanted to try to find some new work shirts. It was a success - three new long sleeves from Van Huesen and two polos from Under Armor. Lola found a few things too - new capris and shorts and some new high heels.
Then we started our drive. Lola needed a nap:
Lunch was at 3:00 in Alexandria - Perkins. Then it was Lola's time to pilot the Passat.
While searching the glove box to see if we had any extra sugars for Lola's bitter earl grey tea from Caribou Coffee in Alexandria, AA came across "some" napkins:
17 from McDonald
9 from Starbucks
14 no names (+ 2 which he found after counting...)
Needless to say, we are prepared for a massive coffee/tea/water spill. Either that or a picnic for 30 people.
I was reminded by Lola just now that I forgot to blog for the past few days. So, here is a recap of activities:
Sunday:
We went to Jamie's family Easter. We were once again known as "the Canadians". After enjoying lunch and visiting with Jamie's cousins and aunts/uncles we loaded up and made the drive from Harding to Minneapolis - the boys in one vehicle and the girls in the other.
For the most part the drive was uneventful, except for when AA and Eric had to remind the girls that south required a right hand turn, not left that they were setup (and signalling) for.
Dinner on Sunday was at Tavern on France and was really good. Arizona Adam's food was delayed because the waitress was too worried about Lola's meal that she forgot to enter his. It's probably for the better, would rather have Lola taken care of than not. Plus, he got a free French onion soup out of the wait (delish).
Monday:
We got up at a reasonable hour and grabbed breakfast at the hotel. Then we loaded up in E and J's Terrain and went to the new outlet mall south of the Mall of America.
Apparently Lola's real name is hard to spell in Minnesota.
After shopping, we went for lunch at Ruby Tuesdays by our hotel and then back to the hotel for a nap. No, not for Amelia but for E and J. Instead, Amelia got to spend some quality time with Auntie Gwen:
After naps were had, we got on our jerseys and made our way to the arena. We had dinner at the restaurant inside and then enjoyed the game:
We even were able to find Crystals boyfriend who was in Minneapolis for work at the game:
(He's the guy with his hand on his face)
- end of recap -
We recently passed some trailers with quality decal jobs:
We are now just outside of Fargo. Almost to our next stop in Grand Forks for fuel and maybe food (although AA is not very hungry).
It was a good trip but like all trips, this one too must come to an end. Soon we should be able to start making trips to cottages to enjoy the summer weather.
We can't wait.
