Our whole family has looked forward to this stop for quite a while now. Today was spent in humid, stormy-then-suddenly-sunny-then-stormy-again Minneapolis. This weather changes on a dime. It takes Las Vegas quite a few hours to get a storm brewing and going overhead, while here, it will storm up pretty quickly and then vanish. But the temperature hasn't been too hot. It's just weird to try and chew the air before you breathe it.
Shopping
I was excited for this city because I went shopping at the biggest mall in America. Strangely enough, it's called the Mall of America. The people who came up with that name were a bunch of geniuses. Geniusi? Not sure what the plural of that is.
I had about 45 minutes of mall time to myself before Scott and our two oldest had to leave (which I'll write about in a minute), and then Noodle would be in my charge. So my store of choice to burn that precious 45 minutes? Sephora! If you've never heard of it, it's a Girly-Girl's heaven. Makeup and Perfume Paradise! Stocked up on a few things, found a new product to try, sampled perfumes (none of which I purchased), and soaked in the estrogen vibe there. Aaaahhhh!
We also visited the Lego store, and Noodle loved the huge Woody that was built out of Legos.
He and I also shared a Cinnabon cinnamon roll. Noodle said that it was better than mine. Ouch.
Saving
Scott, Anner, and Mundo were able to go to the St. Paul temple today and do baptisms for the dead. This is the first time the three of them have been able to do that together. It was a great experience and I look forward to the time in less than two years when our whole family will be able to go all together to do baptisms. To have all of us in the temple will be a very sweet day and will give our children the taste of heaven that awaits them as they live the commandments and prepare to make further covenants with their Heavenly Father.
Singing
Scott saw U2 in concert tonight. Again. For the third time in two months. I'm not exactly sure how the show went because he's still there, but he has been soooooo excited to see this show. I'm hoping the storms hold off a bit longer so he doesn't get soaked and potentially ruin our family's video camera. As we were driving to the stadium, we were pushed off to the side of the road by a motorcade of police officers who were escorting about three white windowless vans.....which Scott says was U2 themselves because that's how they get to the venues. In hindsight, we should have rear ended them so we would have had to exchange numbers.....
Seeing
Finally, tonight the children and I witnessed the last Harry Potter movie. It lived up to what we expected. Noodle had a hard time sitting through it as his attention span is very limited, but he was able to put up the arm rests between he and I and the seat on the other side of him and stretch out to lay down. He asked a lot of questions, but since the theater wasn't packed, no one seemed to notice it. Anner is a bit sad that it's all over now. I found there to be some very sweet (but sad) moments. The whole reveal with Snape and his connection to Harry was very well done, and I'm satisfied with how it was all wrapped up. The kids really looked forward to this and we're so happy we made this part of our vacation.
This vacation has been one great day after another. Part of me wants this to never end and I'm grateful that we still have quite a few days left. Tomorrow we will be attending a local ward and then hopefully going to the temple grounds as a family. This whole hanging out together thing really is pretty cool.
Tomorrow: Minneapolis....still!
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