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 ...or always, depending on your personality.

As I have mentioned in previous blogs, my Canadian pen pal is arriving from Toronto tomorrow morning.  I really hope we get along, because I am planning some of the most awesome things... including a play based on Chuck Tingle's dinosaur erotica.

She's staying out in a northern suburb (Brooklyn Park) that I'm not terribly familiar with, so I asked my Facebook friends for some recommendations. I got the most amazing article sent to me about the authentic Vietnamese restaurants that are cropping up all over Brooklyn Park and a special note that one of the restaurants reviewed in the article, MT Noodles, is a quick ten minute drive from the hotel.  I was able to send this to her and she was very enthusiastic about trying the place out.  My friend, I should note, is a very adventurous eater, so this was EXACTLY the sort of thing she was hoping for.  We have a plan, later in the weekend (possibly that same night) to catch hotpot at Little Szechuan.

She'd noted in a few letters that she was excited to see the Mississippi River and is a fan of thrift shops, so I thought that I might send her off on her own for a bit while I collect Shawn and Mason to the area around 7th Street and my favorite coffee shop, Claddagh. There's both a thrift store and an antique store right on that same block and she's within walking distance of the river... provided the weather is nice and she has a GPS (though she could also amuse herself with all the antique stores on 7th until I can come collect her again.)

If we do anything organized that night, we might see what's happening in Lowertown and elsewhere for the St. Paul Art Crawl.  

I don't remember when I'm picking her up again in the morning, but I also just found out that Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day and there are a ton of activities all around the various bookstores in town.  Then, Saturday night is the Tingle play which will either be a great topper on a fun, if exhausting, weekend or an awkward ending with a lot of uncomfortable silence.

I will take many photos and give you all run down of any of the fun things we manage to see and do!

Date: 2018-04-26 08:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] abracanabra
In the same boat, but with a teenager. WTF do I do with a teenage girl? Stay tuned.

Date: 2018-04-26 08:53 pm (UTC)
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"a teenage girl on the very trad femme side"

Date: 2018-04-26 09:30 pm (UTC)
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Mall of America?

Date: 2018-04-26 09:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] abracanabra
That's Day 1 with her grandma (Friday). Day 2 is up to us. I've got some solid suggestions, I'm just like ... I am not of your type, so good luck!

Date: 2018-04-28 11:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] abracanabra
Apparently the answer is yes! Today's itinerary was a Philippino grocery store in St. Paul (Grammy's errand), Midtown Global Market for lunch and an unexpected salsa cook-off (yum!), and then Hugo's/Edgar's (they were going to go to 1/2 Price Books but I agitated for an indie today of all days). Great success!

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