Despite that I decided to continue with my road trip to Minnesota plans, meaning a friend and I were going to (okay he was going to) drive 6 hours to the state West of us, that just so happens to colder than Wisconsin. Yes, apparently that is possible! And of course I have terrible timing and planned the trip in winter…
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| Filling up with gas in the freezing cold! |
We arrived in MN in time for a drink at the bar and an early night, I had big plans for Saturday, that entailed…shopping! Not because I wanted to buy anything in particular but rather because we were going to The Mall of America, which is the third largest mall in North America. We had an amazing time at the mall, all 6 hours of being there, and I’m still not sure we saw it all.
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| Mall of America, MN |
In the middle of the Mall is an amusement park. We went on this one “structure” that is basically 4 floors of various climbing it’s called the Flying Dutchman and is described as ‘the tallest sky trail rope course in the world (56 feet).’
The decision to try it out went something like this.
‘Tyler, do you want to try this?’
‘Um, not really unless you want to’
‘I really want to do it!’
‘Okay let’s go’
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| Flying Dutchman in Mall of America |
After being harnessed, given instructions and once we were on approx the 3rd level…I turned scared. Tyler told me I had better keep going as the whole thing was my idea in the first place. I soldiered on tightly hugging each pole as I reached and saying a silent prayer, but eventually I really started to enjoy the ascend to the final level and of course the descend on to solid ground!
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| Map of the amusement park in Mall of America, MN |
The rest of the time in MN was spent taking pictures of bridges, sculptures and churches. Unfortunately like I said before, Minneapolis/St. Paul are both freezing, which made taking endless amount of pictures a little hard as I wasn’t quite prepared for the snow that was already covering the ground.
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| Pretty bridge...with pretty lights |
We also visited a sculpture garden which was covered in snow but really pretty. That's where the cherry on a spoon sculpture is...if you're ever seen or heard of it.
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| Cherry on a spoon, MN |
The drive back was…well…6 hours…I slept for a lot of those hours, leaving my road trip buddy alone to drive. I guess I’m not a very good road trip buddy!
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| Hmmm, see what happens when I fall asleep?! |
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