Downtown Minneapolis

Tuesday we ventured to downtown Minneapolis. We started off at the sculpture garden, followed by the art museum, and then the skyways. The sculpture garden was immense, and included a giant glass carp, a square of benches with simple thoughts written on them in elegant ways, and a giant spoon and cherry.

We met up with my sister Jennifer at the park and went to a little Vietnamese place for lunch. After lunch, we made our way to the Minneapolis Institute of Art. There we saw a variety of work, including the largest piece of carved jade outside of china.

We also got to see a piece of my aunt's artwork at the museum.

After the art museum we walked downtown and toured the Minneapolis Skyways. All of the buildings downtown are connected so that you can travel anywhere downtown without going outside. This seems silly in the summer, as Minneapolis was deceivingly warm and delightful, but during the winter months it's far too cold to spend time outside.

We attempted to make it to the top of the IDS tower, the tallest building in Minneapolis, but the IDS building no longer has an observation deck at the top and they don't allow people up. Lauren and I went to the hotel that rents out a banquet hall on the 50th floor, but the hotel manager had just left and we were told we'd need to come back the next day.

After seeing the sights of downtown, we went to an Indian restaurant where we nearly killed Jennifer's boyfriend. He apparently has severe allergies to an assortment of foods that we ate at the restaurant, and he ended up finishing the night in the hospital. Hopefully he knows there are easier ways to avoid your girlfriends family then needing to leave for the hospital due to a severe allergic reaction.