Last weekend I got to go visit my sister in Minneapolis. This was my first trip to Minnie-SOTA, so I had quite an experience. Martha got to take a few days off from work and for me, it was like visiting a fairy godmother – she took me to get my haircut, we bought clothes, we went to fancy restaurants. It was like a whole new me.
First here is the Good Day Café Bad Day Bar and our gigantic apple-cake-soufflé thingy. Doesn’t it look big enough to feed to a dinner party?
Then we went to Martha’s cool stained glass shop. Minneapolis is full of specialty stores like that. In addition to the stained glass shop, I saw a cupcakery and a tattoo remover parlor. Lots of niche markets to cater to.
Martha has promised to make me a stained glass window featuring this cool swirly glass:
Then we went to the Global Market in Midtown which is an up-and-coming area of the city. The Global Market featured food from all over the world. We had some delicious Italian ice, and Martha posed with this giraffe.
In the afternoon I got my haircut and we ate cupcakes. Then we went for dinner at Crave, where I had a lovely fresh ravioli with bolognaise – see what I mean by being spoiled?!?
In the evening we met up with some of Martha's friends and went to a beer garden. They even had “Das Boot.”
On Saturday Martha took me to visit the Walker Art Museum. It’s famous for its huge sculpture garden.
There were all kinds of super cool modern and contemporary exhibits. One of our favorites was called “The Talent Show.” You could be part of the art by making yourself a human sculpture.
There was also an artist who wanted to draw people together into the artistic space. One whole room was full of hammocks and they played Jimmy Hendrix and projected pictures onto the walls.
Then we went to eat soup and pie at the Turtle Bread Company.
On Sunday we went shopping for a raincoat for me. We had a great time.
I think my favorite part of Minneapolis though was the outdoorsy stuff. Now Boone is pretty outdoorsy, but for a big city Minneapolis was very impressive. Martha actually lives in walking distance of three different lakes. Lakes are a very big thing there. Each lake has a different personality and all have walking and biking trails all around them.
There was also this really cool downtown area with waterfalls where the flour mills (like Pillsbury).
For my last dinner we went to Burger Jones, a really nice burger place where we got a tower of fries (parmesan waffle, sweet potatoes, and traditional) and some awesome sliders.
Until next time, here’s a fun picture of me in a giant chair outside Martha’s apartment.
