A Day in the Life » Minnesota http://taylorfamilyconnect.com Zac and Andrea Taylor Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:23:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Minnesota Trip http://taylorfamilyconnect.com/life/minnesota-trip http://taylorfamilyconnect.com/life/minnesota-trip#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:47:09 +0000 Andrea http://taylorfamilyconnect.com/?p=173 I’ve decided that pictures are so much more fun to look at than words. So I met Zac in Minnesota this weekend (he was already there for business), and we did some really cool things. The things I didn’t put pictures of were: going to CivicFest, an event in the Minneapolis Convention Center to celebrate America and Minnesota history. It was in conjunction with the Republican National Convention, which is going on in Minneapolis/St. Paul right now! Sorry, we were not part of the protest group that all got arrested. Would have been pretty exciting if we were, but we decided to stay out of that scene. We also went to a University of Minneapolis Gophers football game, where they beat Northern Illinois in the last seconds of the game. It was very exciting. Here are the things we did that we took pictures of:

Minnehaha Falls. This park is south of downtown Minneapolis, and it is beautiful! It centers around these little falls, but the place has been turned into a gorgeous park where families go for walks, picnics, and bike rides.

Walker Art Museum Sculpture Garden in Minneapolis. This is a huge cherry on a spoon. Downtown is just a few miles beyond those trees in the background.

This is Split Rock Lighthouse, just north of Duluth, MN. We took the tour and watched the cheesy video, and we even got to go up in the lighthouse. It was really cool, and really beautiful.

We walked down 170 steps to get to the shoreline of Lake Superior. AND I walked all the way back up without too many rest stops. You try walking up 170 steps while 7 months pregnant.

Zac dipping his toes into the frigid waters of Lake Superior!

Canal Park in Duluth, MN has a museum about the ships that used to come into the port there. This is a replica of the steering room in a ship, and Zac is driving the boat.

Overall, it was a really fun trip, and the weather was so nice!

]]> http://taylorfamilyconnect.com/life/minnesota-trip/feed 2 What is Fall Like? http://taylorfamilyconnect.com/life/what-is-fall-like http://taylorfamilyconnect.com/life/what-is-fall-like#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:36:27 +0000 Zac http://taylorfamilyconnect.com/?p=156 So today, I had this crazy thought. Although I grew up in Dallas, and have lived here for 20 years, I have no idea what to expect in after this weekend. I graduated High School in 2002. Since then I have not spent a fall in Dallas. I have spent them in Utah and Minnesota but I have not been in Dallas after September in a long time. As a result, I am excited to see what it is like once October and November come. I was talking about this with Andrea today and she said that she has been away from Texas for as many years as she has lived here.
Being a student is a strange time in life. It will be nice to get a little more normalcy in our lives, at least enough to know what the seasons should feel like.

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