"Minnesota, WI" [Bon Iver]

Over the weekend I finally went to Minneapolis, and I am still trying to recover. 

Before the trip...matching shirt set #1

In the hotel Friday night...matching shirt set #2

Coldstone after shopping...our perfect shirts in action!

 

Not proud, but it's the truth. This is our trunk after shopping.

Friday
...After some ambitious cleaning, laundry, and packing, we were all ready to set off for the cities, in our matching NRHH shirts. 
...We got to the hotel Friday night, and just sat around talking about how hungry we were. After some quick deliberation, we headed across the parking lot for a healthy dinner at IHOP.
...We put on our 90-year-old-woman swim suits and headed down to the pool, which disappointingly did not have a hot tub. We still had fun doing somersaults and putting furniture in the pool.
...We headed over to Target afterwards, starting our christmas shopping and getting legos for Justin and candy for Bitty. At one point we lost Bitty, who was NOT following the buddy system, but we ended up finding her in a rack of clothing. (And I'm the youngest one, really?)
...After Target we hung out in the hotel, jumping on the beds, playing hide-and-go-seek, and taking lots of dumb photos. Note the matching shirts...again. 
...Lauren/Mom kept insisting that we go to bed so we would be well rested for the long day ahead of us, but Bitty and I managed to get in a quick game of Elf, thoroughly annoy Justin, and tell secrets under the covers. 


Saturday
...7:30am wake up time. I stand up and jump on bed, excited, and then decide it's too early for that nonsense and lay back down. 
...We broke out our matching T-Shirts that we labored so hard on last week, and Justin even agrees to wear his. Good man.
...After breakfast we drove across the street to the Mall of America and head in for a day of shopping. 
...The trip to the mall was pretty successful, complete with caribou coffee, lots of christmas shopping, a little bit of clothes shopping, noodles for lunch, and a ride on the spongebob roller coaster. 
...We headed home that evening, stopping for coldstone and a picture on the way. 
...After an early morning and a busy day of shopping, all we could muster up was a chill night in the room until about midnight. 


Sunday
...After an "early" breakfast at 10am, I realized I had nothing left to do for the rest of the day. No homework, no cleaning, and all of my friends were gone. 
...I spent the day catching up on modern family, turned on the packer game, and then headed off to work and hall council!