MinneSo Totally Cool

It's good to be home!  We had tons of fun in Minnesota.  Mostly, we ate and shopped.  My girls were great little SITs (shoppers-in-training).  In fact, Molly earned the nickname Mall-y by cheerfully enduring a marathon shopping event at the Mall of America.

Here are a few notes on Minnesota:

• I used to live there!  I moved there right after college and got my first real job at a mortage company.  I've loved it ever since (Minnesota.  Not the mortgage company).  Don't think I didn't make my mom take my picture by my old apartment complex, because I did.
• Bob Dylan and +* are from MN.  Rock on!
• There is no sales tax on clothing in Minnesota.  It's like having a coupon for everything.  Sunglasses are NOT considered clothing; I learned that the hard way when I bought my $8 shades on Day 1 of vacation.
• I was not on the I-35 bridge when it collapsed several years ago, but I was on it this trip. It seems very sturdy now.
  
  
  

  

  St. Croix river boat.



At the American Girl bistro.

Here is a commercial completely unrelated to Minnesota.  There aren't a ton of redheads in ads, and this one, I have to say, really drags us through the mud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz8eDCC2PgQ&feature=player_detailpage

*Prince, that is.  Shockingly, my keyboard doesn't have his funky little symbol so a plus sign will have to do.