Minneapolis & Duluth Trip

This was our first trip to Minnesota and we had a great time exploring it's history and nature and even squeezed in a performance of the broadway show Once. Here's a few of our favorite sights:

The city is building a new professional football stadium.
Upon completion it will resemble a viking ship.

A beautiful community garden tucked into a tiny plot near our hotel downtown.

Minneapolis used to be a flour capital with both Gold Medal and Pillsbury mills on the river.
This mill burned in a fire in 1991. It's now a historical site and museum. The ruins are really
 interesting - a really unique historical museum. (But I like flour).

Inside the mill museum, the hub pretends to load the flour onto the rail car.
Flour sacks weighed 107 lbs and were all loaded manually. (This bag was a bit lighter).

Minneapolis has a crazy spectacular city hall. The hub (a geologist) was impressed!

The former flour exchange building. The stock market of flour!

The Pillsbury Mill A just ended production a few years
ago and is being converted into living space.

View of St. Anthony Falls. The old train tracks are now a foot
bridge over the Mississippi River. Very cool waterfront!

One of my faves from the Sculpture Garden. What does it mean?

Visited a train museum in Duluth. This is one of the biggest engines ever
built which was designed to move iron ore. The picture
doesn't do the size justice. See the tiny man for scale.

Split Rock lighthouse in Duluth was built after ships crashed along the
North Shore. The wreckage of several ships remain underwater nearby.

Welcome! I'm the keeper of the lighthouse!