Minneapolis

Back in October, we took our annual trip to Minneapolis so Marel could spend a few days working in her office. As usual we stayed in the Embassy Suites, and the Omaha cousins all came up to spend the weekend with us. The kids were up to their usual antics.

Elena was a hide and seek champ.

There's often at least one kid crying in a group picture.

We do pretty much the same things every time we go. Of course we went to the sculpture garden before having dinner at Dancing Ganesha (not pictured). The focal point of the sculpture garden of course is the giant cherry on a spoon.

Everyone chose a pose for this one.

Here are the annual jump like a bunny pictures.

Celia and Balo couldn't quite get coordinated.

The brick wall always makes for some nice photos.

Some nice cousin time on the way to the blue snowman.

One of the sculptures is a swing.

Once the crowd cleared away from the cherry the kids fed each other.

And we managed to get a decent family photo.

And this one we took after going to sacrament meeting before the Omaha folks went back home. It turned out surprisingly well for a spur-of-the-moment, set-the-camera-on-top-of-the-car group shot.

While Marel worked, the kids and I found some things to do. We ended up at a little children's museum, where Sabrina put herself in jail, and then broke out.

And we took some time for self-reflection.

We also went back to the sculpture garden because we spent most of our time the first time taking pictures of the Omaha crowd, so the kids and I went back on our own.

We also went to a playground and enjoyed the swings.

After Marel was done in the office, we headed for Omaha to spend the following weekend.
More on that to follow...