Made It To Minneapolis

Lauren got settled in nicely - and brought along her Nemo and blanket.

We made it to the Best Western Plus Capitol Ridge (formerly the "Kelly Inn") hotel in St. Paul and got checked in.

If you want to get a laugh out of Lauren, be sure and ask her about "320" (we were staying in room 321). Talk about not having your life together...

Lauren pondered having the "Hobo Breakfast."

Anyway, the room was very nice (and warm compared to a big chill in the hallway). We checked out the pool, only to find out it was "closed for maintenance." When we sent a photo of the closing to Emily, she wrote back, "#poopinthepool" - which hadn't come to mind but was probably the case!

We also got downtown to eat - which was a bit of a challenge considering it was -4 degrees with about a -25 windchill. We found a nice little diner that featured only a handful of customers. Lauren remarked that our server was also probably doing the cooking since she was also our cashier and was busing tables. Lauren enjoyed a nice Belgian waffle and I had a BBQ chicken sandwich while we watched the first part of the Cannondale Pro Cycling Team launch from New York. If you missed it, you really didn't miss much. The first half-hour was almost exclusively "talking heads." #badtv

These in-room cards are a pretty cool idea.