Your Mom and I got to spend quality time with Grasshopper No.5 over the weekend.
We stayed at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis. Herbalife fanatics were having a 3 day convention (with a Saturday night costume Party). It was a weekend that the Minnesota Gopher team played on Saturday and the Vikings were playing on Sunday. There were lots and lots of Detroit Lion fans staying at the hotel. The Detroit players were staying at our hotel which included lots of security people. Sunday morning I saw Ndamukong Suh who plays defensive end for the Lions (he is so big you couldn’t miss him). No, I didn’t get his autograph.
As you know, No.5 took a one week vacation in August with friends (it included two young teenagers) into the “Boundry Waters” of Northeast Minnesota. No.5 agreed to camp in the “boonies” for the first time of her life. Your Mom and I were eager to hear her recount of the outdoor experience. Her response was “what happens in the Boundry Waters, stays in the Boundry Waters”.
No.5 took us to the “$100 store”. That is her description of Ikea, the Swedish furniture store. Everytime you go to the store intending to buy $5 items such as picture frames or computer accessories, you end leaving the store having spent over $100. Yep, No.5 was right. More than right!
We got to see “Dirty Dancing” at the downtown Orpheum Theater. Patrick Swayze lives! He teaches “Baby” to dance. It ends the same. They have the “Time of Their Lives”!
Saturday night as we are leaving the Orpheum, we ran in zombies. It was the night of the annual “Zombie Pub Crawl”. People dress up as Zombies with hideous outfits and rove from tavern to tavern. In other words, it is an excuse to get “smashed” while dressed in Zombie costumes. We found eyeballs on the sidewalks, half of some Zombies face that had fallen off and lot of bloody costume parts.
Downtown Minneapolis was “alive” over the weekend and your Mom and I had plopped ourselves down in the middle of all the frivolity. As usual, No.5 was a good host.
Love,
Dad