Zack & Tatum's Visit: Day 5

The day started with a leisurely breakfast at a little cafe down the street from where we were staying...

 Our second day in the Twin Cities was about seeing some of the sights, and mostly the sights inside the Mall of America. We did a bit of wandering through some of our favorites shops and checking out the M&M and Lego stores...

I have to say, Nickelodeon Universe has some pretty great rides for an indoor theme park! :) 

 We also had a bit of mediocre fast food and mochi donuts to fuel our day of amusement park rides... 

It also fueled a short easy walk around Minnehaha Falls...

Our last stop for the day was the highly recommended O'Shaughnessy Distilling Co. Everything we had 

was delicious (smoked brie, bourbon steak bites...)

But our favorite was the Irish Spice Bag: french fries, chicken tenders, Irish white cheddar cheese curds, 

pickled onions, bourbon pickled fresnos, scallions, and chili threads all tossed with a curry sauce. Yum! 

Zack & Tatum's Visit: Day 4

Tuesday morning we packed up the van and got an early start for Minneapolis. 

First stop: Culver's for butter burgers, cheese curds and frozen custard. Tatum has a goal of eating at all the regional fast food favorites... 

Our second stop was another regional favorite: Quik Trip. And since they had donuts, we had to try one. Not bad. :) 

We still had a bit of time to kill before we could check into our VRBO, so we stopped at this park near the house and checked out the mighty Mississippi River... 

After we got unpacked and donned our baseball apparel, we made one more stop for dinner at a fantastic Vietnamese restaurant. The food and the cocktails were both delicious!

Then we went to Target Field and we all went to our very first Twin's game... 

Even though the Twin's lost the game, we still had a really good time! 

Zack & Tatum's Visit : Days 1-3

 Zack and Tatum flew into Fargo for a week-long visit. We spent the first three days in Fargo. They got in a few hours later than expected so we only had time for a quick nostalgic stop at Space Aliens for fries and Martian Munchies... 

Then we went to our house for a quick drop-off before heading to the RedHawks' Host Family game. While we got free food at the Armadillo Party Deck, we ended up watching the game from our "normal" seats. 

After church on Sunday morning we drove SE into Minnesota for another trip down memory lane to Fergus Falls. We had lunch at Dairyland, went to see the falls, visited the giant otter, drove by Bethel/HLA and our houses, and did a bit of shopping at Fleet Farm... 

Then we went to Phelp's Mill and did dinner at Zorbaz on Battle Lake... 

Our last stop before going home was a tiki bar in Moorhead, Starbird Lounge. We will go back...

Chris had to teach on Monday, so we stayed close to home. First we went hiking at Buffalo River State Park and were so attacked by mosquitoes that we left and went for a walk at a nice park in town. So yeah, it was a truly Midwest experience. 

After lunch we had walking tacos for lunch followed by beers at Drekker and dinner at Wurst. 

But God gave us another truly Midwest experience and we got to watch an impressive thunderstorm from the garage...