Wednesday night – The Mini-Apple

SOm folks call Minneapolis the ‘Mini-Apple’.. because its the New York of … Minnesota maybe ? I love the city.. lots of parks and pathologically nice people. We had fun today . We started with a walk with my Mom.. she does 3-5 miles every day at 89.. then we all met up with our old friends Jeff and Karen for brunch. Jeff and Karen are good friends from the time we all lived in Winchester UK at the same time while I worked at IBM and Diane did her Grad School. . Jeff and Karen brought a surprise for us.. their .. and our.. friend Anna who lived with us for a couple of weeks pre-covid while she took a furniture making class. She’s a fine woodworker… it was great to see her evolving portfolio.

Brunch was an adventure.. the place had a great bright vibe.. but it also had a new ‘order at your table system.. that didn’t work well at all.

Our meal order got all messed up.. things came at odd times.. and over an hour an a half. The staff was super nice and very apologetic.. and eventually comped half of our meal for the trouble..
All in all it was great because we had longer to talk 🙂 we all then headed back to Moms Condo which was fun too !

That night we all went to Mary and Johns for take out Chinese.. It was great seeing everybody.. It was also the first time we got to meet their new puppy Belle.. such a cutie !