Minnesota

We are finally here in Minnesota and here is the week in review

MONDAY- The boys hookup up the car and trailer in the morning while I finished cleaning. We left Logan at 11 in the a.m and drove for 24 hours straight. And when I say we, I mean mostly my father in law Brad and Justin drove for a couple hours too. Lots of gas stations and junk food!
TUESDAY- We arrived in Minnesota and checked into our apartment that afternoon. We unloaded everything we brought and we all just about died from the humidity. We took turns taking showers in our shower-curtainless shower and then took off for the mall of america, which was awesome.

Dad Mom and Justin at the Mall of America


WEDNESDAY- This was our first really busy day. We went sight seeing around the city and saw some really cool old houses and went to the St. Paul Cathedral and then we found some good/pricey ice cream that my mother in law heard about. Then Justin and I went to a reception for the incoming MHA students are the University. There was an open bar, it was quite awesome! We met a few couples that are in our ward. Then we went to the Spaghetti factory for an amazing dinner and we also tried to unpack and furniture shop. Whew!




THURSDAY- Ma and Pa Atkinson left us in the big city to head back to Utah and Justin had an orientation at the University most of the day so I stayed home and unpacked the house. Then we went to Ikea to get some things for our house and also to Wal-Mart. Its amazing how fast things like garbage cans and condiments add up!
FRIDAY- We spent the whole morning shopping for furniture. We needed a bed, couches a tv stand and a t.v. It was so tiring and difficult. We had never had to buy furniture before and we are both so indecisive. Lets just say we didn't actually purchase a single thing! Then that night we got together with 7 other couples from the ward and had some food and played a game and got to know eachother.
SATURDAY-We went back out and finally bought some furniture. We bought everything we needed and it was so fun! We got an awesome new tv that we are really excited about and then we got together with some ward couple to go to the Minnesota State Fair. I am going to do another post about this.

SUNDAY- We went to our new ward for the first time. It is a good sized family ward and we are really excited to get to know everyone!
Well that was our first week here in Minnesota!