Friday...nothing to see here. Stayed at the hotel ALL day. Just hung out in the room and in the pool area. We really needed the relaxation.
Saturday
Left the hotel around 12:30 and drove over to Fort Snelling to check out their Civil War reenactment weekend. Really cool stuff. A lot of volunteers dressed up in era clothing, especially soldiers uniforms. The boys got to play in a 1860's style baseball game. Many differences from today's game. There are no foul balls...everything is in play. You can throw a ball at the runner to get them out. The bat is more of a cricket style bat and pitching was underhand. That's just a few of the differences. Drew and Josh got the 2 longest hits of the day.
There were marching drills and musket firings. Canon firing at 2pm was pretty interesting. Overall a worth wile 3 hours.
After the fort we decided to get dinner (really late lunch???) at a BBQ place we had heard about called Q Fanatic. Q Fanatic was featured on the Food Network with Guy Fieri. Pretty good q. We went to Walmart to get some items Melissa needed after eating and then went back to the hotel to relax a while.
After relaxing a while we drove over to the Mall of America to see what the fuss was all about and to check out a cool baseball sight. The mall was big, but really only slightly larger than either Del Amo mall or the South Coast Plaza back home. What we really came for was to check out the seat that is high up on a wall showing where Harmon Killebrew hit his monster homerun at Metropolitan Stadium in 1967....520 feet! After checking it out and snapping a couple pics we went over to where homeplate was. Standing there you realize just how far that hit was and how high above the field it ended up.
We left the field and went to our most anticipated event of our vacation. We went to pick up Melissa, Megan, and Jereme. Man were we happy to see them!!! We circled the airport 6 or 7 times waiting for them, but it was well worth it.
Sunday
Game 7 of our road trip was today. Minnesota Twins at Target Field. What a nice stadium and what classy fans. The place was pretty full which really shows the fans dedication considering how badly they are doing this year. Kudos to you Twins fans out there!
It was kinda funny how into his fantasy football draft my brother was. He left the game early to go to the car in order to call into his draft. Then his battery died so he had to use mine. Unfortunately I was using it for navigation and had to switch over to my Garmin before I got lost. I've been using the phone vs the Garmin while here since it takes into account all the construction and traffic going on whereas my Garmin does not.
Got to the hotel and had happy hour and lots of free beer at the Manager's Evening reception.
Now its off to bed. We're driving 8 hours to Rapid City South Dakota tomorrow. Fun!!!
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