Fun Times in Minnesota

We've enjoyed spending some time at Lake Elmo Park reserve, it's a regional park located outside of Minneapolis/St Paul Minnesota. The locals told us that they love coming here and it's much easier to get a reservation than the state parks.
We spent some time at the sand bottom pool at the park. The boys made friends with some local kids. Weston commented that maybe Americans don't know a lot about Canada. He said his new friends were pretty amazed that he was from Canada. They told him the next time he visits Minnesota he needs to bring them a rattlesnake and scorpion from Canada 😅
Of course we had to check out the Mall of America. The kids had no trouble spending their pocket money. They were very good about not asking to go to the amusement park that is viewable from every floor of the mall 🎡After the tempatures cooled off we spent the evenings on the bike trails and the playgrounds that were around the park!
We set up the big screen one evening and watched Mighty Ducks which was filmed in Minneapolis. Mother nature ended up giving us a late night show of her own. We heard and saw maybe one of the craziest thunder and lightning storms to date. Into the wee hours of the night the thunder was so strong it was rocking the camper and the rain was so heavy that the tenters were taking shelter in the bathrooms. We know that we didn't give the beauty of Minnesota enough justice. We will have to come back and visit it's many latkes that it's famous for!Read more