Mini Golf Part II

It's been a good year for mini-golf! Have I ever mentioned I love mini-golf?

During our stay-cation I went with The Girls to the Science Museum and played mini-golf. Then last weekend I went to The Walker with a friend to play the artist-designed mini-golf there.

First we ducked into see what's been planted in the conservatory, which is always interesting:

 

My favorite - an homage to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain.

Also my only hole-in-one.

 It was a great outing, followed by brunch.

Let's hear it for long weekends - hooray!

Stay-cation: St Paul

We had a slumber party at my place last weekend - Room Service (aka Bite Squad) dinner, movie, popcorn .... and then on Sunday morning we went to St Paul on the train for a low-stress day trip.

Girl-child claims it is not her fault that we ended up at the History Center before it opened.  Not sure why she was in charge of this since she has pulled this trick before ;-)

There was mini-golf at the Science Museum and some cool light stuff (where I was supposed to be mugging for a line-up shot, not smiling).

And we went back to the History Center to see the toy exhibit which was amazing.  Girl-child claims it was better having me there because I had commentary on so many of the toys.

We also saw a statue of our ancestor, Leif Erickson:

The Girls are so cute, aren't they?

They ran me ragged ... such a fun day!

Fun Weekend

Just so that you all know, all was not drudgery over the weekend.

We went to the State Fair family-style and saw small animals as well as large ones:




The Sock-Monkey-Lady had a piece in the Fine Arts Building this year (those are sock monkeys going through a meat grinder - gotta lover her sense of humor):

These are the disgusting twinkies I mentioned earlier (I wasn't making it up):


We went for a ride on a cable car and saw topiary turtles:




We saw all types of food on sticks - even hot-dish (that's a casserole if you're not from here) and boulders on sticks too:

We also went to The Walker for mini-golf and found this delightful hill of signs:


This one was my favorite:



The happy golfing family:

The final scores:

The boxes are still here, the lawn still has to be mowed, but I'm sure it can wait. Girl child moves into her dorm on Tuesday .... we had to have some fun!