Day 10 - This and That

Taken in Maplewood MN - can you imagine having to decorate that for Christmas?

We spent the day doing this and that and seeing many parts of the Minneapolis/St Paul area of Minnesota.  Took a short tour of the cute little town of Maplewood....old houses mixed with buisnesses on the same streets....some of these houses were early 1900's and maybe even late 1800's.  I love just driving by and seeing them from the outside.  So much green in the area too....so different than the rock/pebble yards of Arizona.  We then met a friend and her husband at Chili's for lunch and did the usual of talk, talk, talk....she is a real estate agent here in the Minneapolis/St Paul area so we had much in common.  

When we got back to my sisters we all took off again and did some damage in the stores :)  There's NO SALES TAX in Minnesota so I had to take advantage of it and do some serious shopping!  Later we hit Culver's for dinner and then picked up Dairy Queen Blizzards for dessert later (which may have to wait until tomorrow to be eaten :) ).

This area of the country is so beautiful with it's many lakes, beautiful greenery, green grass and trees galore.  I could take living in an area like this if it didn't get so stinking cold during the winter! At the top of the page is a picture of one of the beautiful trees we came across.

Mark, Howard, me, Martha, Gerry, Aiden on table and Hazel on floor