Minnesota Day 1

June 28th, 2014

Well we stopped on the way to Minnesota in Wisconsin to spend one night there after driving the majority of the way to Minnesota. We slept in the hotel, got up and ate breakfast, and then headed out for the last 1 1/2hrs of our journey to Minnesota. We arrived at our hotel, but we were to early and couldn't check in. We went ahead and went to the Mall Of America where we needed to go in order to purchase what is known as the Big Ticket. This would give us access to 6 different things in the twin cities that we could do while here. While at the mall we checked out the rides and the different things they have. It was really cool. We finally found the store we needed, after some searching because the mall is HUGE, and bought our big tickets. We then left the Mall and headed to our first activity the Minnesota Zoo. 

The Minnesota Zoo was pretty big but not because they had a lot of animals. It was big because each animal was so pampered that they had a castle to themselves of land. The tiger in general had such an open space to roam that you didn't see it just sitting around. It was neat to see. They didn't have my favorite animal, the elephant, but they did have penguins and monkey's. While at the zoo it started to rain on us, but luckily we were almost done anyways. One thing we got to see were the Brown Bear's. They were so neat! They were up in the water swimming/walking around. I have some neat pictures of them walking on their hind legs in the water. They also had camels, moose, gazelles, etc. 

After the Zoo we went back to the hotel and checked in before heading out to eat dinner at Perkins. Today was Jim and Jayne's Anniversary so they picked the restaurant and Jarred and I paid for it. It was good. Once we were done eating we had to go to Target to buy Kenzi a bathing suit and then back to the hotel to swim. It was a fun day!

After swimming the kids went to sleep. My dad, Skyler, Jarred and I played Euchre for a while before going to bed to get up and do what we had plan for the second day. 

More to follow later tonight.