Filed under: Minneapolis
Patrick and I went to the Black Forest Inn for dinner because I think you should have super heavy, yummy German food about once every 5 years. Also they were celebrating Oktober Fest with a Burlesque Show. Long time reads may remember we had a fun time as at a Burlesque show in Belfast last December.
It was a beautiful night. There was a great crowd. It didn’t take too long to get a table – but it took forever to get food and we got the appetizers and meal at the same time. Patrick had placed a piggish order – a huge chunk of pork for dinner and a plate of drumsticks to start. You’d think that maybe someone would figure out that no one – not even Patrick hungry – wants that much food all at one time.
But we didn’t really mind. The atmosphere was fun. The burlesque was fun – not too risqué and several singers had learned German songs – well they told us it was German, we wouldn’t know the difference.
So I think we’ll be ready to go back to the Black Forest Inn in about 5 more years.
Filed under: Minnesota
Last Saturday we went to Nelson’s Farm in Litchfield with Grandpa. The weather was perfect! The girls enjoyed the baby kittens best. Grandpa and I didn’t. But there were other things that we all liked. My favorite part was the corn maze. I always love those. I think Kate really loved it too – because we were able to turn it into a competition. She was storming ahead to help us find our scavenger hunt items and then get out.
I think Grandpa’s favorite part might have been the trebuchet that catapulted the pumpkin into the field. There was a playground/playset with a cool, long tube slide. There was an area where you could pan for jewels and marbles. Really just being outside on such a beautiful day was nice – especially for the hay ride.
On the way home we stopped by the World’s Largest Ball of Twine in Darwin, Minnesota. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid. Now there’s a little gazebo-type thing built around twine-ball. It’s fun. Then the kids and I played at the park with Grandpa went to the cemetery to see the graves of my Grandma and Grandpa Treacy. Lily kind of missed seeing that so we all stopped by cemetery on the way home and realized that Lily was born right about the time her Great Grandpa would have turned 99.
Here’s a video on the catapult. I hope it works. It doesn’t work for me today:
Filed under: Minneapolis
Every 5 years or so, we go to a Vikings game. We picked a great one this year – they won! We went to see the Vikings/Panthers game. It was pretty dismal until five minutes before half time and then it got good.
We were lucky enough to win 8 tickets. So we went with a group and met some friends there. It was a perfect day so we stopped by Kieran’s on the way in (and out) for a beer.
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