We left on Sunday after church, and made the 5 hour or so drive to MSP.
When we got to the hotel, we cooked our pizzas (yes we had one of those awesome rooms with a kitchen in it-Thank you Mike for the hookup!) and planned out our days!
We were going to play games but the kids melted down and we separated. We skyped with our parents and then just went to bed early.
The next morning we ate at the hotel and headed to Como Park Zoo & Conservatory
For lunch, we made our first Triple D stop: Donatelli's
It was AWESOME food! We will definitely go back there.
Then we tried out this other random mall...ended up being a flop as a place just to browse so we rearranged our plans and headed to Mall of America. MOA is overwhelming even for people who grew up in a big city. We browsed through lots of stores for several hours and only made it through one wing of the store. The sad part of the whole thing is the only place we bought stuff was at stores we have here in GF...oh well. We decided to eat an early dinner at the Mall and then go to a Triple D restaurant for the late night happy hour appetizer thing. We decided on Panda Express and the Eagar's made it to Chipotle.
We headed back to the hotel so Lisa and I could watch the season finale of the Bachelor (hey don't judge me and I was right about who ended up as the last one). The boys ditched us so they could go see a movie they wanted. When they got back we were all so tired, we didn't feel up to going to another restaurant. We made plans for Tuesday and the Eagars went to their room. Steven and I stayed up late talking and seriously had one of the best chats of our whole marriage. Reminded me why we are best friends too.
Tuesday we woke up, checked out and headed to breakfast at the Colossal Cafe. Now we watched all the segments of Triple D for all the restaurants we were going to visit. Let's just say Triple D did a good job of making the Colossal Cafe look HUGE...and it wasn't. It held 10 people maxed and we were 6. But, the food was pretty good. This was a little cash-only 2 people working type place in the middle of a neighborhood. They actually had to call in another person to come work because it was so busy (lol).
After the Colossal Cafe, we headed into downtown and went to the Mill City Museum. There used to be a huge flour mill there that exploded and burned down. Well they made the cite into a museum that is really cool. We got to go on a tour on the elevator that told the whole story, watched a rather odd movie, and saw all the original packaging for Pilsbury, Betty Crocker, etc.
We decided to hit one more Triple D restaurant on our way out of town. We stopped at Psycho Suzy's Motor Lounge. We walked in and it was a pretty cool lookin place. When we got there and said we have 4 adults and 2 high chairs, the owner (who we recognized from Triple D) was like...um we don't have 2 high chairs. When the hostess informed her they just got another one in, she got really excited. That should have been our first clue it wasn't really a family restaurant--seriously who only has 2 high chairs?! But, the people were really nice and the food was AMAZING!! We had battered cheese curds and some really good pizza. We would probably go back there again but only if it was in the early afternoon again so we weren't there for the bar scene.
On the way home we stopped at the outlet malls about an hour outside of the cities and I got some good deals at The Children's Place and Carter's. We drove almost the rest of the way, stopped to nurse the baby, and finally made it home about midnight.
It was the funnest vacation ever! We had no car problems. We had a nice hotel room that wasn't in the ghetto. We had awesome company. We had just enough to do, but not too much. AND we stayed under budget.
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