Summer Vacation to Minnesota

For our summer vacation this year we went to Minnesota. It was not one of our first choices of places to go, but my good friend from college, Leah Sahkitab, was getting married there so we decided to make her wedding trip our summer vacation spot. Me and Chew spent six days there, and we had a great time.

Here is a little recap of how our trip went-

Our first day in Minnesota we went and did all the tourist site seeing downtown Minneapolis. It is a very cool city that sits right on the Mississippi river. We went to a sculputre park, toured the flour mill, saw the U of M campus, and went down by the river. We then met up with my friend Jess Langley that lives in Minnesota and she made us dinner that night. It was so fun hanging out with her. It brought back lots of memories from our good old college days.
This is supposed to be one of the famous statues in Minnesota. I don't really know why a cherry on a spoon is that important. But it was pretty fun to see.

Chew in front of the stadium where the Twins and Vikings play

Me and Jess on the Stone arch bridge over the Mississippi river

This is a picture of us outside of the first flour mill.

Downtown Minniapolis

Friday we spent the whole day at the Mall of America. It was huge! My favorite part was the kids Nickeloden amusement park right in the middle of the mall. They had about every store that you could imagine. I did alot of shopping for our little girl. I was so tired by the end of the day. It took us about four hours to go through the whole mall. It was crazy.

On Saturday we went downtown St. Paul and looked at all the cool sites, and then went to Leah and Dave's wedding in Hugo.

Me and Leah after the ceremony

This is a picture of all our friends that came to the wedding. Jessiann, Jess, Leah and Dave, Caleb and Ashlee, Me and Chew, Nicole, and Arie. It was so good to see my friends that I have not seen in a long time. The wedding turned out to be very beautiful.

This is the St. Paul Cathedral. It was amazing.

Some of the old SUU gymnast at Leah's wedding

This is a picture on Harriet Island in ST. Paul

Sunday was a really fun day. We went to the horse races at Cantebury Parks. I used to go to horse races all the time when I was little, but haven't been to one in a very long time. We weren't so hot on all the betting. We ended up loosing money, but it was still way fun.

The weather was just perfect for the horse races

On Monday we went to the oldest town in Minnesota called Stillwater. It is right on the St. Croix river. The river is actually the border line between Minnesota and Wisconsin. It was a fun old town. We had lunch and did some shopping.

This is overlooking the St. Croix river

This is looking over the city of Stillwater

Our last day in Minnesota we went to the Como Zoo in St. Paul. It was a pretty small zoo, but was very fun.

Thanks mom and dad for watching Jagger the whole time that we were gone. I'm sure he had just as much fun as we did.