Mother Son Weekend

Taking a mini-break from the food entries to write about Dude's belated birthday get-away which included a sleepover at Grandpa's house where there was more cake and presents, and he all but forced Grandpa and Gmom to watch The Lego Movie.


Epic game of Battleship with Gmom
 

   After that we met up with Dude's friend O. We picked up O and his mom, dropped our stuff at the hotel and then it was off to our adventure at the Mall of America!

 

  

 

terrified of heights
 

  

 
Dude has never been to the Mall of America before so his excitement and energy were through. the. roof. One would think that the main event (for a seven year old) would be rides at Nickelodeon Universe--which was super fun for the boys--but, for Dude the whole purpose for the road trip was going to The Lego Store.  There was so much to see and do at the store he didn't even know where to begin.

He got to create his own new character at the store, he got a new (and super large) set and got to see the larger-than-life creations from real-life "master builders".

  

 We rounded out the weekend by spending the morning in the hotel pool before heading back to the mall (Lego Store and all) again. The boys even managed to get the moms on rides this time.




The weekend was a HUGE success. I'm now ready to cook again.
Until next time friends!

 Bonus pic for no reason:



like the chapeau?