Taking Timey along…

As you may or may not know I write for my college paper. I was recently asked to attend a conference in Minneapolis, MN for the mid-west college newspapers. The driver, the editor, the assistant director, the advisor and another reporter and I all piled into the MATC van early on Friday morning. We all got to pick a mascot to take with us. I picked a little robot called Timey.

Timey and me :)

 Timey accompanied me on our many bathroom breaks, Mc Donalds stops and lastly the trip up to the room. That night we planned on a dinner on Eat Street. We found a lovely restaurant called the Ice House. Great food and wonderful atmosphere. On the way home we had one of the scariest and confusing things I’ve ever experienced happen to us.

All at the Icehouse

As we were driving along we heard a very loud pop, then seconds later our back window shattered. We drove a little since we were extremely confused, then pulled over and called the police. They came really quickly. They also mentioned we were in a dangerous area where people had been car jacked. The police couldn’t tell us what had caused the window to just break but their theories were either the cold/hot effect shattered it or someone shot at us (with a bb gun or something) which shattered it. Either way is not cool and it meant we had to drive home with no back window…in Winter. Once we got back to the hotel I realized that Timey had jumped ship and I had in fact lost him.

Our window :(

The rest of the trip was less eventful. We managed to fix the window and get home safely…YAH :)

Oh and I forgot to mention we went rock climbing at Vertical Endeavors - which was amazing! http://verticalendeavors.com/minneapolis/ This is the explanation of the facility ...

"Vertical Endeavors-Minneapolis, located on 26th and Nicollet (Eat Street), in Minneapolis, MN, is built in one of the last remaining historic Ice House buildings. This state-of-the-art facility opened it’s doors in November, 2011. It is contained within a 10,500 square foot  space. With approximately 28,000 square feet of climbing walls built by Nicros, Inc. and 50-60 foot tall climbing walls, VE-Minneapolis is one of the largest and tallest climbing facilities in the country."

New friends :)

Going up