Friday is fun day

Is this a great picture or what. I can't find where Lisa put the zoo pics.
Since I don't work Fridays anymore, I told the kids it would be fun day. The first one we had a treasure hunt. Next week we had a scavenger hunt, and the week after we went to the Minnesota Inventors Congress in Redwood Falls. The have it every year with all the new inventions people come up with. The kids got to make some blades for testing wind turbines, play a math mountain learning game and get some candy from a couple of the booths. Our pastor and his wife were up there with the new board game she "invented". I think they got 3rd prize. They also have some rock collectors society at the show too. Some guy from work is into rocks. He gave the kids some purple gemstones and we gave him the crystals that we found at the Arches last fall. The kids favorite thing was the grab bags of polished rocks. I think we bought 10 bags of them. We were sitting on the floor looking through them. Zander got a geode. We all had lots of jackpots.
After that we went to the Zoo at Ramsey park for a picnic and saw the animals. After that we went for a hike up the falls. I can't believe how big it is. We all had a great time.

Parade Day

Today we all got up and went to church at 9:30. After that we went to the church picnic and got all kinds of goodies. I got a couple magazines and books, and a pump for a water barrel, the kids played games and won some junky prizes and candy. After that we went through the BK drive thru for burgers... ate them on the way home and headed over to the parade after we changed clothes.
The kids all had fun. We got a spot in the shade so it wasn't hot at all. They got plenty of candy. Zach ate most of his right away. Lisa was talking to some old lady we sat next too. She was a Fischer too. We saw quite a few people we know. I thing Nick said he knew 15 people. Here are the pics. The guy pulling the 20 tanks made the corner. I thought no way.. but he did it.

US Womens Open

Friday I took Lexi and Nick up the the open championship in Edina. It was at Interlachen Country Club. We got up about 8 in the morning and I got everything ready to go and then woke the kids up. We were on the road by 9 or so. We parked at Southdale shopping center and they ran shuttle buses over from there.
We walked over to #13 and watched 4 groups go through. We saw Paula Creamer, Annika Sorenstam, Julie Inkster, Pat Hurst and Morgan Pressel. Then we went to hole 9 and 18 by the clubhouse and the practice greens. Nick stayed by the clubhouse and got some autographs as they went to and from the practice area. Lexi stayed there with him for a while too. She got 2 balls from players after their rounds. Nick only got one and he was jealous. Later on he got an autographed ball from some player. Lexi and I watched by the #9 green under a nice shade tree. We were right in the front row. Lexi sat pretty good. She was collecting the nuts that fellfrom the tree.
We went to eat at about 12:30. We got a couple hot dogs a chicken wrap and 3 pops. Total bill $25.50. Later we got an ice cream and 2 waters. another 10 bucks. On the way out after it started to rain we went into the tent where we came in and the kids got a coupon for a free meal so we ate again. They also had a goodie bag for the kids with a hat, bag tag, rules booklet... The Lexus tent took our picture and gave out some free lotions. Nick took 9 of them. Free stuff you know. We stopped at McD's on the way home. Nick had 2 - 4piece nuggets, fries , pop and a sunday. When we got home he wanted a snack. Had to say no to that one.
The next night Lisa took Zander and Lexi to see WALLEE. She said it was TERRIBLE!!!! While they were gone Zach and me put together our stuff from the OPEN. Here are the pictures.