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Vehicle Day

Leif and Aaron's outing to Union Depot that was documented in the previous blog post was far from their only excitement on that recent weekend day. They had kicked off their long day of adventures with Vehicle Day in the parking lot of Southdale Mall, where Leif got to climb on and in all manner of vehicles, including those pictured below. When it got too chilly to hang around in the parking lot any longer, they headed over to downtown St. Paul for a pizza lunch at Cossetta's, followed by some play time at the Children's Museum. (Leif had apparently been telling Aaron all morning that he wanted to go "deliver packages at the museum"; Aaron phoned me to confirm that he was talking about moving around the big foam cubes in the pretend shipping warehouse at the Children's Museum.) The stop at Union Depot rounded out a long, fun day out...topped off by a VERY long nap in the car on the way home :-) .

Leif checks out the BIG trucks!

 

 

Behind the wheel of a sports field utility truck (Aaron's description

of this made it sound like the baseball equivalent of a Zamboni)

 



 

On the deck of a police boat

 



 

Checking out the ambulance

 

 

Cozying up to the paramedic

 

Union Depot

One recent weekend afternoon, Aaron took Leif to the newly renovated Union Depot in downtown St. Paul in search of trains. On this visit, they were only able to see freight trains, but within a year or so, Amtrak and light rail should be running to the Depot, as well. Aaron came home raving about how beautiful (and currently, how eerily empty) the interior of the building is; I'm eager to see it myself!