Brown Eyed Girl Meets a Blue Eyed Boy: minneapolis

This past weekend most of my family hit the trails and headed to Minneapolis for a weekend of shopping and baseball - perfect! We try to catch our beloved Yankees at least once a year when they play somewhere near us - Minneapolis, KC, etc. so this year, Minneapolis it was.

Everyone took Friday off and so we hit the road late morning stopping after just a few hours for shopping at the Cabella's (for the guys) and Medford outlets (for the ladies). I got little miss some really cute things for fall and some new workout clothes for myself at Nike. We then drove up the rest of the way to our hotel in Minneapolis. We stayed in a great location - close to the Mall of America and Ikea, as well as a train to Target Field. Friday night we ordered pizzas and spent some time in the pool and hot tub, then played games in our room to end the night.

Saturday we slept in, grabbed breakfast, then headed over to Ikea for some shopping. I snagged a few good deals - nothing big but a few fun things for the house and for Lily when she gets a little bigger, then it was back to the hotel for a little relaxing before heading to the game. We wanted to go early because we had "standing room" seats and weren't exactly sure what that meant. We took our hotel shuttle to the mall then caught a train from there to the field. We spent quite a bit of time walking around the stadium looking for a good place to spend the game. Shortly into the game we discovered it wasn't working well for the kiddos so Jimmy decided to head back to the hotel with Lily :( My brother and his wife left shortly after that with my nephew and niece too. So, the game didn't turn out as well as we'd hoped and we decided we'd never do the "standig room" only seats again, but we ended up finding a good place to sit about half way through the game so it wasn't all bad!

Sunday we had breakfast then pretty much just packed up and hit the road home.

We had a fun weekend with family and it's always great to see the Yankees!