Friday, September 10, 2010

Exploring Minneapolis...

Over Labor Day weekend, Becki & I took the boys on an adventure to downtown Minneapolis!

Here's the Basilica:

There was a wedding coming out of the church, so beautiful!

We went to the Farmer's Market, which was huge! I got a beautiful bunch of flowers, Alex ate some yummy fresh fries, we got some buffalo jerky for my nephew (which Alex LOVED - need to send Logan's to keep Alex from eating it!) and we bought okra to fry for dinner (which is HARD to come by up here).
There were some odd vegetables:

Some odd, huge squash:

and I didn't get a picture of these huge potato leaves that people were buying by the garbage sack full to make soup from.

Alex & Max got balloon swords:


After the Farmer's Market we headed to the Sculpture Garden.
There were some sculptures that the boys could climb/play on:


The famous Spoon/Cherry bridge:



These trees "sang" to us:


The chimes hanging from the trees were beautiful and soothing!

There were gorgeous flowers that smelled sweet:


This sculpture was interesting, but my favorite part was watching Alex looking at it:



We walked across the bridge, which was neat for the boys to be walking over the traffic:


Alex loved seeing how close he could get to the geese:

Luckily, he couldn't get too close!
After finding a fun park for the boys to play, we headed home to watch the Vols play (had to watch on the computer, but that's better than missing the game!) and eat some bbq ribs.
Such a fun way to end the summer!

1 comment:

tirzahdawn said...

What a great adventure! I love all those sculptures!