Twin Cities weekend away

Robert and I went up for a quick weekend in Minneapolis at the end of May.  It was pretty last minute and with really no purpose, just to go some place sans kids for a bit of rest.  

We spent most of our time driving (hello big city traffic) and eating. 

 When we arrived in town we hit up a sushi spot.  It was pretty hard to decide which one to try.  We ended up at Wakame Sushi near Lake Calhoun.  We had a to wait, and ended up eating at the bar.  It was was good.  The picture above is of some heart shaped sushi we tried.  I also had a ginger beer drink with actual pickled ginger floating in it.  It was tastey.

 Robert was in charge of the hotel, he pricelined us into the Double Tree, really nice, free cookies! With nicer hotels 4 starts and above I find you usually do not get complementary breakfast. This is find with me, especially on a kids free trip.  I enjoy waking up later and finding a more local joint to enjoy breakfast.  Both days we eneded up at pretty hippee/crunchy joints.  The place we went Sunday morning didn't even have diet Coke! (only kombucha for a fizzy drink) Saturday breakfast pictured above was Sun Street Bakery, also had this really cool Star Wars chalk art.  I love pointing out Chalk art to Emily. Sunday breakfast was at Rustica bakery.

 We always make it a point to drive by our old place when in town. Seems like the new tenent is into landscaping and lawn ornaments. 

 Saturday night we ate for 2 hours at the Melting pot before seeing The Book of Morman.  They sat us in this intimate little booth for two with curtain you could pull close for more privacy!

We dipped many things into cheese, broth, chocolate! It was a nice, slow dinner, and fun.  We both thought it would be fun to do with the kids, at least the cheese -chocolate courses.  We will have to find a fondue pot.

And what can I say about The Book of Morman.  It was so funny, raunchy, inapropriate, and FUNNY.  It was all pretty true as well. Those South Park guys are really good with music. Everytime we see a live show or concert we both realize how much we enjoy it and wonder why we don't do it more.

Emily's broken arm

We experienced our first broken bone at the end of May, and we never thought it would be Emily.  It's not that Robert and I took bets or anything, but we were both surprised it was her.  

In pure Emily fashion she broke it helping me in the garage, not doing something crazy dangerous. 

Waiting.  We wait a little bit everywhere.  Since it was during the work day we requested an appointment with our Ped, and got in right after lunch, Saw our Dr. then he sent us to Radiology (the radiologist whispered in my ear, you better hold that arm careful, at that point I knew it was broken even though she wasn't supposed to give her opinion).  From Radiology we went back to Pediatrics, waited, saw our Dr., read the x-rays and he said it looked broken.  He then sent us down to Orthopedics (down the hall) and we saw the on-call Dr.  He confirmed the brokenness and sent in a tech to put on the cast.  Pretty straight forward, we left the clinic at 4:15 pm, so almost 3 hours. I am thankful all of our Drs are under one roof in Ames.

The siblings were in tow.  I debated quickly getting them a playdate before heading off to the first appointment, but I knew our couple of usual friends were out of town or still in school.  They did pretty great waiting.  We read a few books, and the Orthopedics receptionist were awesome and flipped the tv to Disney and let the kids hang out and watch while Em got her cast on.

Getting the cast off was so much more fun.  She giggled a ton! I could tell it was tickling her, and she just couldnt stop laughing.  She wore a brace for another 4 weeks and loved that since we could finally hit the swimming pool.