Not Quilting Trip: Minneapolis! (Day 2-4 of 4)

Day Two

The second day I walked to the Art Museum and then thru downtown while Bernie prepared for the presentation.  That night he was still working and although we didn't talk,  I mostly stayed up with sympathy.

View of city from the Art Museum https://new.artsmia.org/

The beautiful and huge central library. https://www.hclib.org/about/locations/minneapolis-central To get to it one walks into a door from outside, then the library has open walls.  Have to go into it though to catch the elevator to the reading and book floors.  The escalator led to meeting rooms and locked areas with books.

Day Three

The third day was his presentation.  I walked over the Mississippi walking bridge to the campus with him to the campus.  I didn't have badge so walked around there for a bit.  Went to the student union for coffee and a bagel, and to the art museum that is on campus. Then I met husband, walked him thru the art museum quickly before we went to lunch and then caught up on some sleep before meeting his co-speaker for dinner.  We walked thru campus and a new part of town to get to the restaurant.  It was a nice meal, then we walked back (she Ubered).  

View from the Univ of Minneapolis student union steps.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Minnesota

Interior of campus art museum.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weisman_Art_Museum

View from the campus art museum. Looks back toward our hotel.  We walked the covered walking bridge to get to campus. It was probably the same distance to walk to that campus (about a mile) as it is to walk to SDSU, but walking to SDSU (for us) requires walking over the freeway and listening to (and avoiding) the whizzing cars.  

View from campus art museum.  This was the covered walking bridge over the Mississippi River!  Each year the student groups refresh art/advertisements for their clubs on the inside.  There is also an outside walking place too on both sides.

Day Four

The last day he had to spend time getting us checked in for the flight.  He used CheapOAir and it is always so difficult to do things with them.  We had breakfast at a place he wanted to go to - ended up not doing breakfast meal but had the Ethiopian lunch where you scoop the food up with the bread.  It's nice.  I have had a few times when we were in Boston for the sabbatical in 2013.  The flight back ended up being very nice.  They had snack food for sale - which even though it's sort of a short flight was really nice to dig into!

  

I now have a favorite candy bar!  Didn't know I was going to like it so much or would have picked up more to share at the airport.

Hope I get to return to this part of the world!

Not Quilting Trip: Minneapolis! (Day 1 of 4)

Had a very quick trip to Minneapolis the end of last week.  The first day we left San Diego in the morning and arrived around 3:00pm.

We took the handy light rail directly from the airport ($1!!! for three hour ticket) to the Cedar Stop and disembarked.

   

It was a beautiful, sunny and clear day.  It was a pretty quick walk to our hotel.  Passed a handsome public housing building that caught our eye.  Turns out it was used in the establishing shots of the last few years of the Mary Tyler Moore show!

House of Balls  Didn't go inside, it was next to the light rail station.

Mary Tyler Moore lived here! Riverside Plaza

We napped for a few hours when we got in.

Views from hotel window.

Had dinner at an Indian Restaurant that was just a few blocks away.  South Indian cuisine from the Malabar region (seafood).