This weekend was so much fun with Ray and Ale! We had a nice and relaxing visit with them with lots of time to just visit and catch up! We did Mall of America on Saturday. We even went to the Nascar store and all rode in Nascar simulators in a race against each other and about 10-15 other people. It was really fun! I drove through the grass a few times and got knocked around a bit - but I managed to come in 15th out of 18th place! Haha Ale got 17th and Michael got dead last! Ray actually did pretty well and got 11th place or so! Then Ray and I rode one of the roller coasters in the amusement park area and it was really fun!
Saturday night, we headed to St. Paul for dinner at Axel's Bonfire Restaurant. It's a pretty neat place and they have "dueling pianos" that started at 10pm, so we stayed and watched that for a while.
Sunday we went for a nice little lunch at a place called Patrick's Bistro & Bakery. It was SO good and felt very much like a little New York café.THEN....we DROVE ONTO Lake Minnetonka! It was nuts! I was driving and was totally tense and scared, but after a while you kind of forget you are frozen water....until you see a big crack that is. Don't worry people - we only did it because there were cars and trucks parked everywhere on top of the lake. So we just stayed in their tracks. And Ale had our escape plan figured out in case it did start cracking - we would just step on the gas and try to outrun the crack! :-)
They headed to the hotel last night to get ready for Ale's work event today. It really was so wonderful to see them and spend time with them! And from what Ale had said, they have redefined their definition of what cold really is. ;)
Saturday night, we headed to St. Paul for dinner at Axel's Bonfire Restaurant. It's a pretty neat place and they have "dueling pianos" that started at 10pm, so we stayed and watched that for a while.
Sunday we went for a nice little lunch at a place called Patrick's Bistro & Bakery. It was SO good and felt very much like a little New York café.THEN....we DROVE ONTO Lake Minnetonka! It was nuts! I was driving and was totally tense and scared, but after a while you kind of forget you are frozen water....until you see a big crack that is. Don't worry people - we only did it because there were cars and trucks parked everywhere on top of the lake. So we just stayed in their tracks. And Ale had our escape plan figured out in case it did start cracking - we would just step on the gas and try to outrun the crack! :-)
They headed to the hotel last night to get ready for Ale's work event today. It really was so wonderful to see them and spend time with them! And from what Ale had said, they have redefined their definition of what cold really is. ;)
Ray & Ale at Bubba Gump Restaurant at MOA
Ale, Ray & Michael at Bonfire restaurant
In front of Lake Minnetonka - the one we drove on!
Michael & Ray clicking the snow off their heels - hehe
The 4 of us - such a fun weekend!
2 comments:
h they are so cute! glad you are having visitors....going to look at air fare right now...
I am just always in shock at the amount of company you guys wrangle up! Popular people!
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