Vacation Day 4- Leinenkugel and Madison

Vacation Day 4- Chippewa Falls and Madison, WI

Happy 31st Birthday to me!!  On Saturday it poured like crazy when we left Minneapolis.  We were headed to Chippewa Falls, WI to Leinenkugel brewery for their 9th annual Family Reunion.  By the time we got there the rain had stopped and we wound up having a great time.  There was free tours, brats, snacks, and everyone got 3 free beers.  I had a Summer Shandy and then a Summer Shandy mixed with Berry Weis.  Justin had a Berry Weis and another dark beer.

 After the brewery we headed to our Bed and Breakfast in Madison, WI.  It is called the Speckled Hen and it is gourgous!

Our room- Madison Lakes

The steam room/ shower

Llama!!

That night we went to Great Dane Pub for my birthday dinner.

What to eat?

My mini beers

Justin's burger

My falafel sandwich

Afterwards we just relaxed and watched some tv before bed.  Such a run and relaxing day!

Vacation Day 3- Minneapolis (Mall of America)

June 15th 2012- Day 3 of Vacation- Mall Day!!

Day 3 of the trip was planned to be the dedicated Mall of America day.  So after breakfast in the hotel we headed across the street to start the mall fun.  It took as about 3 hours to go through the entire mall.  We went to many sports stores, we love looking for stuff with obscure team names on them such as a random San Diego Charges onesie in Illinois.  They had these cool piggy banks designed like the sports teams and I want the Phillie one.  Unfortunately they only had the huge one in the mall and I wanted the little one. 

Also my hunt for random college team clothes at the semi annual Victoria's Secret sale was a bust.  But I did get 3 new skirts at NY&CO, cool Twins undies at Victoria's Secret with my $10 birthday card, Lion King 3D blueray, and a few other things.

For lunch I got my free birthday meal from Noodles and Co.  After that we went back to the hotel and I went and sat in the hot tub for awhile.  For dinner it was back to the mall and a yummy meal at Buffalo Wild Wings.  We even played the trivia game there and watched lots of baseball. 

PhiPhan that's me.  I even won a round

They had my favorite soda machine so I got Strawberry Sprite Zero then Peach

After dinner it was back to the pool for a bit then we watched a little tv before heading to bed.  For tomorrow we would leave Minneapolis and head to our next destination, Madison WI. Badger town!

Vacation Day 2- Minneapolis, MN

June 14th, 2012 Day 2 of Vacation.

Day 2 started out with breakfast in the hotel at 9am.  I had yummy Belgium waffles that were both regular and chocolate.  Afterwards we headed back to the room and relax in which I promptly fell asleep.  After a little while we decided to get up and head to the pool for a few hours.  Then we headed for the 5-8s Club for our first every Juicy Lucy's.  This is where you take two pattys of beef and put melted cheese in the middle.  It was so good.  Both Man versus Food and Food Wars have been to this restaurant.  It used to be a speakeasy back in the prohibition days.

 I got the blue cheese Juicy Lucy and Justin had the Cheddar, we split the Onion Strings, very tasty!

After a quick trip to Super Target (Minneapolis is the home to Target) it was off to prepare for the Phillies/ Twins game. 

Richfield Super Target

Now this day it rained... A LOT.  So I was very worried the game would get cancelled.  None the less we put on our Phillies gear and headed to the lobby to board the bus to the train station.  In the lobby we met some people we had seen at the pool the night before that were from Alaska and their cousin played for the Phillies.  All 19 (20 with Phil) of us got on the Best Western bus and headed to the 28th street Hiawatha Station.

Waiting to board the Hiawatha

Hiawatha

Where the Vikings play

Train ride was only about 40 minutes and it went pretty smooth.  We got to Target Field and pretty much walked right in.  First stop was to one of these cool little booth Best Buy had set up where you can get a free photo taken.  I did it twice.

The one I did during the game

The one I did before the game

I liked the ball park and all but I felt it was lacking some of the charm parks like Citizens Bank and Miller Park had.  Maybe because it was still new but we'll see what happens in the future. 

Go Phillies!

T.C. Bear

I did like the little Minnesota sign that lit up when the Twins hit a home run.

Thankfully in the end the Phillies won, this continues our streak of 3 Phillies games and 3 wins.  After we got back from the Hiawatha to the 28th street station we had to wait almost 45 minutes for the hotel bus to pick us up which was no fun.  We did run into a couple who were also Phillie phans from Iowa and talked to them because their hotel also abandoned them.  After we got back we watched Gabriel Iglesias' stand up on comedy central, he is a pretty funny dude.  I feel also when the roast of William Shatner Roast began.