Saturday, in the park, oh, I think it was the 4th of July...

Well, it was the week after, but it was fun all the same. This past Saturday, we had a lot of fun. We spent the whole day together as a little family. First, we went to the Mill City Farmer's Market downtown Minneapolis. But we wanted to walk across the Stonearch Bridge, so we parked on the other side. This is our journey across... Then we made it over to the farmers market and found some lambs and chickens to pet...

of course, my kids didn't want in on that action.

But they had beautiful flowers...

and we even took a new family portrait...
it was on the mirrored side of the Guthrie, the kids had great time with it!

This was the area that went to the Mill City Museum's doors... but that is where you stopped because the government shut down closed the museum...

There were tons of fun vendors, one guy even had a loom and was weaving really awesome tapestry things, others just had awesome food displays... just tons of stuff, lots to see!

food..
I want to paint these...
Then we ventured back to the bridge and explored a bit... but Kate wasn't very happy to leave...

Do you like her tights? It was 90 something and very humid, but the little girl wouldn't leave without the tights, they painfully don't even match.

Under the bridge... (mom, this is when I was talking to you...)
These are entrances to tunnels that run under the city... as well as ruins of some of the mills and the train loading areas...Kate cheered up again for her daddy...

We went home to cool off and have some lunch, then we headed back out to the Chain of Lakes downtown. We mostly hung out at Lake Harriette... I think I want to be a sailor now, these sail boats looked so fun!
I want to paint these clouds too... those building in the distance are awesome, they look like...

this up close... very cute, great atmosphere...

Then came Tanner's surprise...Inspite of the picture, he loved it... they still run one of the old streetcars on 1 mile of track. It was really fun...

They gave you an original token from back in the day as your pass to board, you put it in the little box thing as you got on. Then they drove you down one way, back and down the other, then back again. They told you the history of the streetcar operations and stuff, it was short, but sweet!

Look at their cute hats!

Then as we were leaving, I found our future house, it was even for sale. Cory picked out a different one, but we know wives always get their way! Ha, I can only imagine how much this thing costs!
Sorry that was so long, but it was a fun day! We will probably do it again sometime!