We had tickets to a children's theater in the cities so we decided to make a weekend of it with the kids. We went to the play - "Stone Soup" - which all the kids loved. Even Frankie sat through the whole performance. We also went to the MN Zoo and the Science Museum.
A few days before we left, Sam asked if we could have "that stuff" we had in Germany again. After a bit of explaining, I figured out that he was referring to shawarma that we bought from a street vendor. We decided to take the kids to the Mediterranean Café, a Greek restaurant that we used to go to when we lived up there. Knowing they sometimes have belly dancers, we decided to go at lunch, thinking the wouldn't have belly dancers on a weekday at noon. Not that we have anything against belly dancers, we just didn't know if we wanted to intentionally bring our young children to watch a woman gyrating around a stage.
Turns out we were wrong about them not having belly dancers at lunch. Not only did they have one, she came over and invited the kids to come up for a belly dancing lesson, which was very entertaining. Charlie was a little unsure so he didn't go up, and Frankie just stared and stared. Sam and Elena had a lot of fun, though.
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| "Fish!!" (or as Frankie says it, "Shish! Shish!") Frankie loves fish and is constantly asking to go over to his cousins' house next door where they have a mounted fish he can see or to re-watch an episode of Mr. Rogers where he goes snorkeling again and again. So he was pretty excited at the giant aquarium. I think he would have stayed there all day if we let him. |
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| with one of the cast members of the play |
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