Since the boarder of Wisconsin was only 20 minutes from Minneapolis, we decided to take a short drive to say we've been:) We drove to a neat town on the boarder of the Missouri River called Hudson. We took a picture because Hudson is the name of our nephew. It was coincidental that that happened to be the closest town in Wisconsin. We made our way back quickly after realizing that Ty had a fever. He was burning up!
Since Randy had been to Minneapolis a few times training with Medtronic, he wanted us to experience Downtown. There are walk-ways connecting all of the buildings so you don't have to walk outside at all if you don't want to. It was pretty amazing. And since Minneapolis is headquarters for Medtronic he made sure to wear his Boston Scientific ball cap everywhere he went! Our first stop was to Target headquarters to purchase some Tylenol for Ty. This was a two-story Target that had escalators for people and shopping carts alike. You'd push your cart through a gate to connect to the conveyor belt. A bar would hook to the front wheel and hold it upright as it went either up or down. Then you'd get onto the "people" escalator and ride up next to your cart and pick it up at the end of the "ride." Our whole family (minus Randy) stood gawking at a cart riding down. I'm sure we looked pretty crazy just staring and exclaiming how neat it was. And I'm sure Randy did the same thing the first time he saw it as well!! It was also serendipitous to meet a girl named Stephanie Keely there as well!
We walked from building to building just looking in a bunch of shops. It was pretty stressful trying to stay out of peoples' way while they were traveling for work. We heard a comment, "They must be Christian." This was a cafe in the middle of one of the buildings. The center circle has water falling from the ceiling. Beautiful! I love those trees. If I wasn't a plant killer, I'd love to have one in my own home!
Our last stop was at the Wells Fargo museum. We took a "ride" in this stagecoach. It was really an employee pushing and pulling one of the corners to get the feel for how it would have been. They took out the middle row where three more people would ride on the inside for a total of 9 inside. Then, they'd have another 9 people on top or hanging onto the sides. 18 people would ride in just one stage coach! Look how crowded it is with Randy, Caden, and Brennon! Downtown Minneapolis is a beautiful place! I'm glad he convinced us to go, although I was siding with the kids to just head back to Mall of America!
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