Continuing east to Minneapolis today. This is another place in the trip where we could've spent much more time. This was our 4th day in a row of 4+ hrs driving with a longer day ahead of us to get to Michigan, and it was starting to wear on everyone.
Of all the many activities in Minneapolis we'd researched, we decided to start with the Mall of America where the girls wanted to see how you fit an amusement park into a mall. In the end, we never made it anywhere else. We got smoothies, shopped a bit (Zadie stopping at every kiosk during this summer of squishies), got Ruth's glasses tightened at Warby Parker, were awed by the Lego sculptures, then finally hit the rides. The girls did some easier rides together, then I rode one roller coaster with Ruth so we could give Zadie the scoop. She was interested but worried that it would be too scary. They eventually rode it together after some pro-level big sister support from Ruth and bravery from Zadie herself. Zadie loved it.
