We headed for Minneapolis on the 20th of August for a 4-night stay with the Sandholms. It was a quick visit, but it was nice to see them as well as see the MSP family for a small gathering. The kids traveled quite well. Gillian and I had a first class seat on the way there as that was all the seats that were left using miles. It actually worked out quite well for feeding purposes. We were in the last row of first class and Seth and Alistair ended up being only 2 rows behind on the other side. So though I wasn't sitting with them, I could still hear Alistair talking. Both kids fell asleep not long after take-off. Gillian woke up for the last hour and Alistair was awake a bit before that. Because of sever weather on the MSP side we were late by almost 2 hours getting there. 
On Friday we just vegged and hit-up a couple of kiddie stores and had lunch out. 
Saturday we walked down the street to Lake Harriet for a casual walk around after first stopping at Bruegger's Bagels for breakfast. At the lake there was a race going on and the kids were clapping for joggers/runners as they passed. After a bit Alistair and Sully decided they wanted to run too. So we got them out of the stroller and they proceeded to run at least 1/2 a mile or so! 
Once we got half way around the lake, we stopped at the little swimming area so the kids could play. The little kids played in the water and sand while the big kids tried to get the kite flying on a non-windy day. Needless to say there was a lot of running up and down the beach! (:
That evening we had Seth's family over - all of them! We thought we would only see his aunt, uncle and maybe cousin and her daughter. We saw all of them plus his other two cousins and their significant others. It was a fun time. We did a BBQ with skewers and had way too much delicious food - we ate it all the next day! (: Alexis is 2 days older than Sully. They had a fun time playing together in the backyard. Seth's family all got to meet Gillian for the first time.
I packed all kinds of clothes for Gillian and forgot any kind of warm jacket or longsleeved anything for her! Luckily there was a sweatshirt of Sully's that wasn't giant on her!(:
We also hit Mall of America and first hit the arcade. The boys played skee ball and some other games. Then we ventured over to Nickelodeon Universe to ride some rides which ended with Gabe and Seth riding the Spongebob Squarepants Roller Coaster to Rock Bottom. It looked like a lot of fun, I think they enjoyed it. 
We also went to Lego Land and marveled at all the Lego sculptures. Sully and Alistair each got to pick out a new lego set, and picked the same one - a cargo plane which Alistair loves and flies it all over the house!
The last morning we were there we hit up The Good Day Cafe (I think is it's name) and had breakfast. It was delicious!
On Friday we just vegged and hit-up a couple of kiddie stores and had lunch out. Saturday we walked down the street to Lake Harriet for a casual walk around after first stopping at Bruegger's Bagels for breakfast. At the lake there was a race going on and the kids were clapping for joggers/runners as they passed. After a bit Alistair and Sully decided they wanted to run too. So we got them out of the stroller and they proceeded to run at least 1/2 a mile or so! Once we got half way around the lake, we stopped at the little swimming area so the kids could play. The little kids played in the water and sand while the big kids tried to get the kite flying on a non-windy day. Needless to say there was a lot of running up and down the beach! (:That evening we had Seth's family over - all of them! We thought we would only see his aunt, uncle and maybe cousin and her daughter. We saw all of them plus his other two cousins and their significant others. It was a fun time. We did a BBQ with skewers and had way too much delicious food - we ate it all the next day! (: Alexis is 2 days older than Sully. They had a fun time playing together in the backyard. Seth's family all got to meet Gillian for the first time.I packed all kinds of clothes for Gillian and forgot any kind of warm jacket or longsleeved anything for her! Luckily there was a sweatshirt of Sully's that wasn't giant on her!(:We also hit Mall of America and first hit the arcade. The boys played skee ball and some other games. Then we ventured over to Nickelodeon Universe to ride some rides which ended with Gabe and Seth riding the Spongebob Squarepants Roller Coaster to Rock Bottom. It looked like a lot of fun, I think they enjoyed it. We also went to Lego Land and marveled at all the Lego sculptures. Sully and Alistair each got to pick out a new lego set, and picked the same one - a cargo plane which Alistair loves and flies it all over the house! The last morning we were there we hit up The Good Day Cafe (I think is it's name) and had breakfast. It was delicious! After this we headed to the airport and thus ended our trip. We had a fun, but short visit and can't wait to see the Sandholms again in January!!
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