Monday we had a chartered bus take us to Mall of America for the day. We where there from 8:45 til 4:15, what a long day of shopping. The mall has 520-plus stores, four stories high, covering approximately 96 acres, the nation's largest combined retail and entertainment center features an indoor amusement park, an underground aquarium, a miniature golf course and more than 50 restaurants and night clubs. The Lego Imagination Center features four stories of life-sized models as well as millions of Lego's to play with.
Transformer made with Legos.
Tuesday, we had a free day. We had gone into Red Wing to the Stoneware Co., watched them making a piece of stoneware, then downtown to the Red Wing Flagship Store and Museum. We had seen the world's largest boot, 20 ft. long, 7ft. Wide, 16 ft. High, and weighting 2,300 lbs.
The lower floor of the building houses the factory store, the main floor is the retail store, and the other floor is the museum, with a movie showing you how they make the shoes and boots.
We had taken a walk through the town, which has a small town charm. The town lays along the Mississippi River with a bridge which crosses over to Wisconsin. They are to have a steamboat that runs on the river, but while we where along the river we didn't see any boats.
On the way back to camp we had stopped at Hobgoblin Music barn where there is a harp factory. On the lower level of the barn, artisans make folk harps, mountain dulcimers, mountain banjos and bodhrans. The Music Loft offers a regular schedule of folk, Celtic, and bluegrass music, plus an occasional stage show. We had seen one guy working on a dulcimer through a window when leaving.
We had another GAM today and then a drivers meeting before leaving tomorrow.
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