Vacation time

We just booked a hotel in Bloomington, Minn., for our first real family vacation this weekend!

This fall is so crazy, but we've really wanted to go on a family vacation and October seemed like the perfect time to go. We went to Minneapolis two years ago and have really wanted to go back. There's a database conversion happening at work this week so the work we can actually do will be limited. So people could take vacation if they wanted to. Thus we're taking our first real family vacation to Minneapolis this weekend! And it seems that we're going to have some great weather!

We'll be going to the Mall of America for sure. We decided to stay closer to the mall because it will be easy if other plans don't work out. I've been worried that we may try to do too much. But we can go to the mall the whole time and be entertained. We want to do Build-a-Bear and go to the big Lego store where Allie could play with tons of legos. She loves playing with blocks at home. We also might check out the aquarium and the American Girl doll store. The pictures here are from when we went the last time. Above is from the aquarium and below is the big Lego airplane above the Lego store

In Minneapolis we'd like to perhaps go to a sculpture park I read about and the Como Park Zoo. There's also the stone bridge pictured above and some other things in the riverfront area. And of course there's are a few museums we can get into free using our Madison Children's Museum membership. And I'm sure there are other activities I've looked at but not listed here. We're really excited to take Allie along with us on a family trip. We can't wait!