booohwlliiieeen

Or how Minnesotans say bowling.

I think I was on a kick of things I haven't done in 10 years or so this trip; skating, bowling, coloring in a coloring book a later thing I will explain later.

It seems like a new hot spot for the locals is to hit up the newly remodeled Thunder Alley. So when in Rome..... (see pictured)

There is something about bowling alleys that give me a hankering for nachos with cheeze whiz. I abstained though because I had just had chicago style hot dogs from Portillos. What an awesome gift.

I have to say that I was rather frustrated at first because it wasn't coming as quickly as ice skating did for me, and I wasn't having very good luck.  I had no idea how good of bowlers the rest of my family were.  It kind of ended up being pretty fun. We clapped, we cheered, we booed, we bowled.  I think we were the loudest people there. (Not surprising)

Photo essay portion:

skating-a photo essay

It has been a while in Minnesota since the weather has been perfect for lake skating. I took advantage of the above 30 degree weather to do something I hadn't done in 10 plus years. But since I played camera girl, here is a bunch of photos of other people skating.

Happy new year!

I am back and adjusting to life back in Los Angeles after 2 weeks in Minnesota. My pictures are finally uploaded and I hope to give you a snapshot of my time in the tundra. (For the most part the weather wasn't tundra like except for the couple days where it was 10)It was sunny, it was not very snowy, but not sundress weather.

One of my first stops in Minneapolis was to meet Charley(sp?), who was very new and sleepy, because it is hard work being born. She is awfully cute and tini-tiny with really long fingers. Everyone is still happy and healthy and I can tell that Evan is very excited to be a big brother, but rather impatient that she can't do stuff yet.

Something tells me that those two will get into a lot of trouble together.