The boys and I took a road trip (can it be called a "road trip" if you only drive 90 minutes?? Well, we left the city, in any case!) to the exciting destination of <drumroll, please> ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA in late September. Aaron had some house projects that he needed time to work on without little people underfoot, and I thought it would be fun to take the kids on a 24-hour out-of-town adventure with Erik, Tami, and Vivian. My reasons for picking Rochester were: (1) it's just far enough away to feel like we're truly out of the giant sprawl that is the Twin Cities Greater Metropolitan Area these days, yet close enough that I could count on one or both boys sleeping for just about the entire drive; and (2) they have a Children's Museum there. Ironically, we did not even end up making it to the Children's Museum, but the boys still found the trip pretty darn exciting. After all, it did feature:
- an overnight stay in a hotel
- two, count 'em, TWO swims in the hotel pool
- dinner at Vivian's favorite restaurant (Perkins)
- visiting Erik, Tami, and Vivian in THEIR hotel room all the way at the other end of the very long hallway
- Bjorn getting to play in the bathtub for as looooong as he wanted to while his brother slept for another hour on Sunday morning
- a breakfast buffet at the hotel
- a stop at Gock and Grandpaw G.'s house on the way home, including Leif's first time riding on a horse with Grandpaw!
I did not get many pictures on the trip, but did manage a few at Perkins to prove we were there :-) .
Vivian & Tami
Bjorn, Erik & Leif
Bjorn, Amy, Leif, Vivian & Tami
Since the trip was a hit, we'll have to head down to Rochester again sometime -- next time with Aaron!
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