Two exhausted shoppers...

Ok, the place is HUGE. We got to Bloomington (right outside of Minneapolis) last night. Drove up from Springfield. Did not do any sightseeing along the way, despite the fact that Dave would have loved to have stopped at the Herbert Hoover Library.

Today, Mari and I did the Mall....We actually met up with my friend Janette from work. That was weird...to come all the way to Minneapolis and be able to meet up with someone from home. We had a great time hanging out together...they have a huge scrapbook store in the mall, so you can just imagine where we spent a lot of time :-)

After lunch, Mari and I actually walked throughout all three floors of the mall, walking around each floor. That was a lot of fun too. When we got back to the motel, Mari discovered that one of the sweaters that she had gotten was too small...so we had to go back and return it and instead of exchanging for a larger size, she decided she wanted to go to some other stores...so we got to walk more of the mall (found another penny machine for Leanne while doing that :-)) Mari and I are now both beat. Sad thing is that we pretty much have to pack the entire car up tonight because we have an 11+ hour drive tomorrow and along the way we want to stop at Wall Drug and Mt. Rushmore. Thank goodness we will gain an hour along the way.

Happy Trails...
Nicole

P.S. I LOVE BASIN!!! (-Mari)