Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Weekend with the Z's!

We had such a fun visit with Michael's parents over the weekend. They got in Thursday night around 8pm. Friday, we had a nice and lazy morning with a big breakfast and just visited. That afternoon, we headed to St. Paul to go to the Science Museum of Minnesota. It was a lot more fun than I think any of us had expected! They had lots of hands on stuff so we were entertained for hours! We even caught an Omni film on the Swiss Alps while we were there!That night we went to a really nice dinner at a place called Axel's. It was a day without meat, so we all got the Almond Crusted Walleye...SO yummy! I've never enjoyed fish so much in my life! :-)

Saturday, we went to the Wabasha Street Caves in St. Paul. They are these neat little caves that are now used as reception hall, wedding reception site, etc. We went on this little tour that took you through the different rooms in the caves and they talked about the history of when the caves were first used to grow mushrooms, etc. They talked a lot about the mob activity that used to take place there (even bullet shots on the walls from a shootout!). That night we went to a fun dinner at California Pizza Kitchen in this cute little area with lots of shopping and restaurants (reminds us of The Woodlands).

The rest of the weekend, we just stuck around the apartment. Much to Michael's delight - we ended up having a Risk tournament throughout the whole weekend! I started off hating the game, but by the end I was actually enjoying it (even though I was the only one to not win a game - argh!). It was really fun though. The game we played Sat night took over 4 hours!!!We were obviously sad when they had to leave on Monday. But, most importantly, we were SO glad they were able to come visit!

At the entrance of the Science Museum

Faith driving the tug boat :)
In the animation room
Me and the dinosaurs! Those things are truly bizarre.

Entrance to the caves

Inside the cave

Faith in a dice "battle" with Michael

3 comments:

Misty Nelson said...

Oh this is great! I am glad you all had such a nice visit! I just love the picture of Michael and his dad...they are so cute!

Amber said...

Oh, no, Kyla!! Not Risk! I shouldn't judge, seeing as how I've never played. Oh, the fun of family bored games! We had Scrabble tournaments every weekend at my parent's. I lost every time.

Amber said...

Okay, totally misspelled "board" games. Sew embbarrassing!