Flowers from the backyard

No real reason to post this other than I just thought they were pretty. These are the flowers on our patio. I was wondering if they might look pretty blown up and framed for the house. Just to add a little POP of color.

LEGOLAND!!!!

At the Mall of America there is a place called Legoland. Here you can see many lego sculptures and, to my amazement, you can buy any size, shape, or color lego you want. There are bins of all the legos, including all the accesories. Never knew there was such a demand for legos!


Sorry Quenton, no Buzz Lightyear, but we found Woody!

Aquarium at the Mall

While walking around the Mall of America, we discovered there was an Aquarium inside the Mall. Whoever, heard of that?! Anyway, we decided we would visit. It is not near as big as the Georgia Aquarium, but adequate for a mall.

This sea turtle kept trying to swim through the glass to escape,good thing he couldn't he was huge!!!

The two famous people we ran into, NEMO and DORY!!!!!


The jellyfish exhibits are always the prettiest.

Mall of America

Frank and I flew into Minnesota about 6 hours before Travis and Theresa, so we killed the time at The Mall of America. This is the largest mall in the country. I would believe it. It is four stories high and you feel like you just walk and walk for ever. There is even an amusement park inside. According to Travis, you could go into every store and spend 10 minutes and you would be at the mall for 4 days straight!


This is the Nickelodeon amusement park. I know Addie and Quenton would have loved it.

This was the best Mexican food I have eaten in a long time!!!

Frank trying to decide what to eat!

Me and my little friend.

Minnesota, here we come!

Frank has a dream of visiting every ballpark in the US. It seems like every year we pick a new ballpark to visit. This year it was Minnesota Twins. Our friends, Travis and Theresa, were going to visit Theresa's family and they asked us to tag along. Luckily the Twins were playing the BRAVES. Unfortunately, the night we went to the game, the Braves lost. But we still had fun. It is a new ballpark and was really pretty. Our seats gave us a perfect view of downtown Minneapolis. There are lots of pictures, sorry.


We had great seats right behind the Braves dugout about 30 rows up!

Frank and me enjoying the game.

Travis and Theresa also enjoying the game.

New Microwave!!!!!

As most of you know the house is more than 20 years old and has all the original appliances. Well we knew it was getting time to start replacing them one by one. The microwave started cooking only parts of our food and we thought, we would just deal with it until it finally quit. Then the handle broke and it was hard to open. Then finally, Frank turned it on and smoke came out and it completely died. We bought a new one, but since we are so cheap, we decided to install it ourselves. It wasn't hard at all, the worst was trying to get the old microwave down. Now we are in the 21st century, and can't believe how bad the other microwave was. We feel spoiled now.

Charleston!!!!!!

So we got a free trip to Charleston and it was about to expire. It was beautiful and neither of us wanted to come home. We had never been there before, so most of our weekend was spent at The Market, the shopping area. This is the area where slaves used to be traded years ago. Now there booths where people bring things they make and sell them. Next time we will visit Folley Beach and some Plantations. There are a ton of wonderful places to eat, I only wish we could have visited every one. We picked a restaurant and ate, then left and found another restaurant we wanted to eat in. We hung out in a bar, that used to be a church! Now that is crazy. There were still the stained glass windows and everything. I can't wait to go back!

This was our first stop. Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. for dinner. They had the best shrimp I think I have ever eaten. By the way, I am not tipsy. Again, difficult to take a picture of yourself.

We thought this looked just like a pirate ship.

Still trying to perfect the art of taking pictures of ourselves.

This girl was giving samples of her Italian Ice. Great idea! It was so hot, I could not resist buying one.

GQ Frank in front of a really beautiful hotel.

The funniest thing happened. We were walking, as we had been doing all day. A boy on a bike came up and asked if I wanted to buy a flower made from grass. I said, "No thanks". His response was, "Here you can have them all." He handed them to me and rode off on his bike. Weird!