The past week

Once every year (until we have kids anyways) I would like to go on a trip with Aaron. This year, the first plan was to go to Colorado. And then it changed locations to a place a bit closer - Wyoming. And then it changed again to the Twin Cities. I've come to realize, that even though it would be awesome to go somewhere new, just getting away from home with your other half is nice.

The Twin Cities - we spent the night at my sister's the first night, went to Valley Fair with her and Kate the next day, walked around the Mall of America for a bit the third day, and ended our trip with a Twins Game. Most surprising thing about our trip? I actually really enjoyed the Twins Game! I wasn't really thinking I would, mainly because baseball doesn't really interest me. I told my mom before we left, "I'm not real excited about the Twins Game, but I think it's something you should attend/do once in your lifetime." (attend a major league baseball game) The weather was perfect, the food was typical yummy baseball food, and learning about how the game of baseball works in the outside stadium with sky scrapers in the background as the sun goes down...it was a great night. As we drove back to our hotel, Aaron mentioned, "now I want to go to a Vikings game". I do too! So a Vikings game may be in store for this winter.

After our cities trip, we fought some awful traffic heading back to the lake. We should have known though, being it was the fourth of July weekend. Not being used to bad traffic, it was a bit frustrating.

 At the lake we pontooned out to the sandbar, and en route saw there was a live band performing on the lake. We'd never seen that before! We also brought the paddle boards and attempted to float on those. Aaron gets the award for the most persistent - he would fall off and then hop (literally hop) back on. Then I tried to get on the paddle board with him, and then Elizabeth got on too. It's safe to say the paddle board was completely submerged with the three of us trying to balance!

 

On Saturday we got a sad call that Aaron's grandma had had a massive stroke, and was responding very little. So shortly after meeting on Sunday, we headed back to Jamestown to be with Aaron's family. I plan on blogging a separate post about grandma Eileen in the next few days, but for now I'll just end this post with the sunset picture I took on July 2nd. What a comforting thought knowing Eileen is headed to somewhere much, much better. It is so hard to see her, and it was so hard to see my grandpa too, their last few days on earth, in the state that they're in. I'm thankful I got to know Eileen these past 6 years Aaron and I have been together.