My mom was up here for a visit last week. After two days of me running around with various errands and appointments while my mom watched Keziah (because I could), she decided to stay an extra day so we could spend some more time together. It was a good decision. I’m glad that she stayed. Not that the other days weren’t good, we just needed another day together and I know she wasn’t ready to leave her granddaughter just yet.
So . . .on Friday, we had a great lunch together at Common Roots Cafe, a cool coffee house/cafe in Minneapolis that serves all local and organic food, much of which they grow in their own garden in the plots behind the parking lot.The lunch was delicious and the soup my mom had left her complimenting it hours later (if you knew how amazingly tasty my mom’s various homemade soups can be, you’d realize how good her soup must have been). My soup was good and my chai latte was amazing and left me wondering why I had ordered a small.
After my mom oohed and aaahed and drooled over and photographed their garden, we headed to Minnehaha Falls. This is a great park in Minneapolis with gardens and trails and a very accessible waterfall, something that’s important to a mom with a stroller. I’m not exactly sure why Tom and I have never been there before. We wandered around for awhile before finding where the actual falls were (somehow we had missed it driving by) and where the bathroom was (so I could actually enjoy the falls).
We had a great late afternoon there, enjoying each other’s company, talking about how much Tom and my dad would enjoy it there. It was a great place for feeding Keziah and for watching her take in all the new sights and sounds. We walked around a bit and took lots of pictures, practicing our photography and we took turns getting Keziah to giggle, which was half the fun of the whole event. The falls were beautiful, especially since urban waterfalls are a bit more fascinating (though I don’t know their source) and it was a perfect, pleasant afternoon together.
Oh, Katy, your captured the day so well and I can almost hear Kezzie giggling, which was the highlight of it all. I think Minnehaha Falls was just waiting for the right time to present itself to you and now you and Kezzie have a place to take Tom, and others as they visit you there. It really is a great spot and I’m so glad we went. Yiayiawatha.
Thanks! I’m glad we both got to blog about it. FYI, I realized after I wrote my most recent post and looked at my site that the photos are all messed up on this post. The picture of you and Keziah in our front yard by the tree is supposed to be large on the top where they is an empty spot with an x on it and the other two empty spots with x’s are the one of you whispering to Kezzie and the one of me holding her up in the air. They all appear below, but aren’t how I thought I had it set up. I seem to be having trouble with picture placement lately.
[...] you don’t want to hear). We had a wonderful visit to Minnehaha Falls (my mom and I went there last year with Keziah, but we decided to take the men with this year too). It was a wonderful time to enjoy [...]