We headed out around noon with a quick stop at, “McDonald’s.” Our first destination was the MOA (Mall of America). I am not a big MOA fan. It is a shopping mall, super-sized. I don’t like shopping malls so my dislike increases proportionately with the MOA’s size. However, my daughter the Princess wanted to take the Monkey for the first time & Mom LOOOOVES MOA.

We wandered around for a few hours, stopped at Orange Julius. Monkey loved my Tripleberry drink. I think partly he likes that I feed him via the straw. His Mom uses silly sippy cups!

Refreshed by our smoothies we headed for the, “Underwater Adventures.” Mom & Princess have both been through previously, (the whole like/dislike malls thing). I had not, so Monkey & I got top gawk together for the first time. Monkey was a bit unnerved at first about the fish near and over him. He calmed down and got interested in seeing the swimming, “kitties.”

We followed that with dinner at the, “Rainforest Cafe.” Monkey was not really that excited by it. It was very loud and after an initial interest in the fountain we were seated next to, Monkey was just in sensory overload. We ate as quickly as we could, and left for our motel. Princess & Monkey left us and now Mom and I re having a quiet early night. Tomorrow we fly!