Lazy start to the day, I have to admit. That’s the nice thing about staying in a hotel. You don’t feel bad about sleeping in because there isn’t housework waiting for you. Mason started the day with a dip in the hotel pool. How a kid can spend 30 minutes in the pool playing with a plastic cup that he got at dinner last night, I’ll never know! I’ve spent so much time in the water doing laps, I think I forgot how to just bob around and play.

Our next stop of the day was the Minnesota History Center. There we first went to the “Mystique of Mobility” exhibit. I really liked it’s focus on alternative transportation. This sign says what I have always said when I see highways being widen in metro areas.

I did find this sign amusing.

At the end of the mobility exhibit, there was a grain elevator/play structure called Grainland.

We then headed to the “Tales of the Territory” exhibit.  We met a really knowledgeable museum volunteer who told us about the Ojibwe Tribe and Minnesota as a territory.  This was the area that Mason and I got to build a log cabin.

The last area we went to focused on the fabulous Minnesota climate.    Needless to say there were lots of exhibits about cold and snow. lol!  Below, Mason was using a blower to make the windmills spin.  He did pass on waiting out a simulated tornado in a basement.

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