Thurs 14 Nov

Heading out soon for Minneapolis. Today we go to the Finnish Bistro for lunch, check in at the Rosewood Inn in Hastings and head back to the Mall of America to shop around and have dinner at the Napa Valley Grille before returning to Hastings for the night. Tomorrow we pick up 6 loaves of cinnamon raisin struan bread (preordered at Emily's bakery) to hold us for several months. (It freezes beautifully.) We have lunch tomorrow after a tour of a winery/vineyard in New Prague, then shop around in Minneapolis after checking in at the Sofitel. We have dinner reservations at the Signature Cafe for a prix fixe dinner on a Living Social voucher. We hope to spend time on Saturday with Kurt and Barb for breakfast and possibly a tour of the Surly brewery. Barb has hockey tickets in the evening, so we will head off to 5:15 church and have dinner at the Red Stag Supper Club. Sunday we'll have breakfast at Sofitel, probably hit Byerly's grocery store and head home in time for choir. Food: 6:45 am 1 c Trader Joe's multigrain flaxseed cereal, 1/2 c light original soy milk, 1/2 grapefruit, 109 g raspberries, coffee Exercise: 4:50-5:50 am DWTS DVD