My body aches all over from two long days of driving. I could have survived this alone, but when I went to make coffee this morning, I discovered only decaf!!! If that doesn't sound horrifying, you may accidentally be reading the wrong blog.
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| The Hall of Mirrors symbolizes my mental state after only decaf this morning. |
Today was our day to explore the Mall of America (MOA). Not being much of a shopper, this was a mostly disappointing experience for me. However, Anwyn and Leo found some nice jewellery and Leo and I enjoyed getting some new shoes. Perhaps my expectations should have been adjusted. After doing some reading, I discovered that the MOA is less than 1/2 the size of the West Edmonton Mall. I guess they left out the half of the stores that were interesting to me... except for this LEGO display ;)
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| My zoom lens only captures the foot of the 30' tall LEGO Transformer on display |
Although everyone was exhausted, the girls eventually woke up enough to enjoy the Nickelodeon Theme Park. They did some climbing and rode several of the roller-coasters.
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| Looks fun, but for 40 min in line, I'd expect to be able to go WITHOUT the tether. |
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| Anwyn told me you should try to do one thing that scares you every day |
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| Mission Accomplished! |
It has been fun boldly driving wherever we want with the aid of my iPhone's GPS. We had a bit of a scary moment on the freeway when my phone's battery went dead. I actually had to pull off the road and unfold one of the paper maps that Wendy made me take. Kind of fun actually. The girls ran through a torrential rain to buy subs for supper while I deciphered the ancient markings scrawled on an archaic medium known as PA-per, or some such. It was a harrowing ordeal. Let this be a reminder to all of you kids to always have clean underwear (or so my mother told me) and a charging cable on hand.
Back at the hotel, I had a half hour run (in my new shoes) followed by an agressive bike ride. Drenched with sweat, I feel like I may have counteracted some of that time wasted sitting in the van. I managed to talk the girls into going to sleep early.
There is a terrific thunderstorm outside as I write this post. I want to stay up really late to watch and take pictures, but I should really get some sleep. We travel again tomorrow.
I am going to continue to add new vacation pictures to the
same album. Newer ones will be towards the bottom of the page.
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I hope I don't sound too surly.