The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
The famed author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Though the family struggled financially, they managed to just hang on to the fringes of “good society”, but they bounced around …
We surprise found ourselves with some extra time in our travel plans, and we found out we could house and pet sit for our friend Heather, we made an unexpected visit to the Twin Cities …
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright was not involved or in any way affiliated with the Purcell-Cutts House, but if we hadn’t known better we might have guessed it to be one of his works. That’s because …
Though neither of us is an especially big Prince fan, we know an iconic singer when we see one, and Prince is a full-on legend in Minneapolis, Minnesota. So of course we found ourselves visiting …
The Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota, came on my radar for its architecture, designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. The building was completed in 1993 and is situated on the University of Minnesota campus, …
The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, came on our radar as a “coolest museum” and one of the best contemporary art museums in the country. Given that it has no permanent exhibits and only …
We went to the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to get some Swedish eats, check out the museum, and tour their historic house. Their restaurant, FIKA, came on radar as a place to get …
We went to the Thomas Sadler Roberts Bird Sanctuary in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to see some birds, naturally, but we found almost no birds. However, to my delight, the adjacent Lyndale Park Rose Garden had many …
Clearly one could spend hours and hours in the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minnesota, but we were low on time and high on hunger, so we only spent two hours exploring. We managed to …
