Surprised by Minnesota

Labor Day Weekend in MINNESOTA / Twin Cities

Our trip to visit Cohen's oldest sister Brandi and her family in Minnesota broke down-no tore down-stereotypes previously held in my mind about the great state of Minnesoooooooota. The suburbian area of St Paul that we visited is full of beautiful scenery, homes and friendly people.

Here is a Wikipedia fact about the Twin Cities Minneapolis-Saint Paul is the most populous urban area in the state of Minnesota, United States, and is composed of 186 cities and townships. Built around the Mississippi, Minnesota and St. Croix rivers, the area is also nicknamed The Twin Cities for its two largest cities, Minneapolis and Saint Paul, the former the larger and the latter the state capital.

The area is part of a larger U.S. Census division named Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI, the country's 16th-largest metropolitan area composed of eleven counties in Minnesota and two counties in Wisconsin.

It has everything you need to live a fun filled life. There are lots of inside activities for the cold winters and BEAUTIFUL state parks, rivers, lakes for the summer.

To help with the captions the family members: Brandi her husband Jesse and their children Kaylen 10, Julia 7, Jayson 4, and Sean 2.

Cohen's Top 5 Highlights

-Hiking up the waterfall at Willow River State Park in Wisconsin

-Eating french fries, donuts, 1/2 gallon of root beer, bucket of cookies, fresh milk, corn dogs, and chocolate covered bacon at the fair

-Eating ice cream at the Grand Ole Creamery

-Shopping at the Mall of America

-Playing with my nieces and nephews

Aimee's Top 5 Highlights

-Meeting Al Franken at the State Fair

-Eating downtown St Paul with Brandi and Jesse and having ice cream at an amazing creamery

-Dutch oven cookout on Labor Day Weekend

-Seeing the Mississippi river

-All you can drink milk for $1 and a bucket full of choc chip cookies at the State Fair

one more.....eating Wisconsin cheese in Wisconsin

Jesse, Brandi, Julia, Jayson, Sean, and Kaylen

Julia

Chocolate covered bacon

Fresh strawberries and cream!

Brandi

The Senator/Stuart Smalley and Aimee

Jayson and Cohen

You could pick regular or chocolate!!

One of our many times in line

look the bucket is almost empty

Cohen doing Kaylen's hair

Grand Ole Creamery

Cake in a dutch oven..yummy!

Mississippi River!!! I didn't see Huck Finn though

I was obsessed with the corn in the midwest

Cohen having fun at the Mall of America