On Monday we went to the science museum...I think they said it was in St. Paul. There were a lot of fun things and the kids...and adults were entertained for hours!!! I couldn't take pictures of everything (there was a really cool bridge outside that I didn't get to take pictures of and I totally forgot to take any pictures of the singing stairs...) oh well, these are some of the best shots of the day!!! remember these...we used to make small ones with buttons.

I think we all took a turn on this one...I didn't get all of our pictures on it though.

Monte had to concentrate really hard...but I think he did make the bell ring.

there was even a big section on weather...dad would have loved it...we sure did!!!

the news desk...they all loved this one!!! they got to be news anchors for a few minutes.

This is what we did on Sunday afternoon. We had to get Eli and Mickie out of the house. Eli had been kinda sick that week so they thought it would be best if they didn't take him to church. So they needed to get out and get some fresh air. We went for a walk by a shopping center that had a cute little pond and water feature that the kids had to play in. and I was able to get some more fantastic poses!!!

I just thought it was such pretty scenery and I loved the bridges! It was such a pretty place and I nice relaxing Sunday afternoon kind of thing to do!

another cute family picture. You gotta love Monte's shirt...basketball is life...yep...runs in the family!!

after Minnehaha falls we went to a place called Chutes and Ladders, as my brother described it McDonalds on steroids...fun for the kids...they ran off a ton of energy there...I wanted to go on more of the slides...but I am a pretty big baby when it comes to stuff like that...so I did go down one of the twisty slides that wasn't enclosed...I was a little worried about getting stuck. Also on the other side of the chutes and ladders was this lake, one of the 10,000 lakes of MN. very pretty, and like I said before...can't figure out how to get the pictures in the right order...oh well!!
Chutes and Ladders.

Monte went down the slide with Eli...I even caught him in the act!!! way to go big bro!!

some of the kiddos really like to pose...I don't know where they get that from!!!

then another picture over at the lake with Monte...the little dock thing didn't feel very secure... so of course he had to be bouncing it back and forth...just another kid!!

a couple of other interesting things at the Minnehaha park. I have no idea what this is...but I took a picture anyway!! cool bridge opposite the falls.

one of the posts had a lot of catterpillars on it...yuck...or is it cute??

I just love trees...and I thought that this was a fun picture!!!

I wrote this part first and then added more pictures...maybe someday I will totally figure out the blog and what direction to add stuff...for now...we will just deal with it!!!

slowly but surely...maybe someday I will finish blogging the rest of my MN trip. so I don't remember which day this was...ok, so I think it was Saturday. We went to Minnehaha Park. and this is Minnehaha falls...just say it...you know you want to...it is really fun to say. The M&M family had been there a couple of other times but they said that this day was the best they had ever seen the falls. They said that another one of the times that they went to the park that the falls were just a trickle...so I was lucky that it had rained for a few days before my arrival. The waterfall was really cool...I am a sucker for waterfalls!!!

the whole M&M fam at the falls, they had a picture there before but somebody was missing from the picture because they didn't have somebody else to take the picture. so we remedied that problem!!!

a cute little fountain at the park...there wasn't any water in the fountain...but at least there was water in the falls!!! much more important!!!

and a side view of the falls!