we arrived after noon instead of first thing in the morning. the kids still wanted to go to mall of America, but were good with a two hour limit. we had a late lunch there and enjoyed the American girl store and the Lego store. matt started spending his spending money right away! we then drove to wabasha mn, crossing over the misiissippi a few times. wabasha is where the movie grumpy old men was filmed. we stopped for Mexican food on the way (really good veggie potato burrito) (matt protested and ate subway later ). the kids thoroughly enjoyed the pool (with basketball hoops !) and played Legos and filled out journals and went to bed. mom created these fantastic journals for the kids to write in and gave them spending money for the next day for doing it!
next morning we had breakfast at hotel then headed across the Mississippi to pepin wi. visited the small but nicely done museum there then drove out to the rebuilt little house in the big woods. the area is very pretty, much more rolling hills than I expected. we drove back into pepin and strolled the lake shore, picking up some pebbles just like laura. lunch was great at the nelson cheese factory and I was excited to have a sprecher root beer! then we drove back to mn and went to lark toys, spent more spending money and played mini golf. then to the wabasha county fair. the fair was held at the coffee mill ski hill, with all of maybe 300 vertical feet! the kids spent over an hour in the 4-h building making crafts and making butter with the dairy princesses. then unlimited rides (they must have gone on the slide 30 times !) for them and fried cheese curds for me. since it was late, we stayed another night in wabasha, went back, enjoyed the pool and had dinner at subway.
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