Long Day

Step 1: Wake Up
Step 2: Breakfast - Pancakes, Eggs, Orange Juice, Coffee
Step 3: Clean breakfast mess and our stinky bodies
Step 4: Take train to the Downtown East Metrodome Station

Step 5: Visit the Mill City Farmer's Market

Step 6: Look out over the river from the Guthrie Theater's "Endless Bridge" (note: it is technically not endless)
Step 7: Climb the hill and chase screaming children (the ones we know) around Gold Medal Park

Step 8: Walk to 7 Corners to eat at Noodles and Co.
Step 9: Walk to the Cedar Riverside station and head home on the train

Step 10: Put kids down for a nap
Step 11: Make grocery list
Step 12: Ladies choice - make chocolate chip cookies/weed and water the garden
Step 13: Nothing, I'm superstitious
Step 14: Pack picnic dinner for a trek to Dodge Nature Center (Laura's preschool)

Step 15: Dance like fools at the picnic while listening to a bluegrass folk band (the band leader turned out to be my German 1001 instructor from the U of MN about 8 years ago - I failed his class due to not showing up for several classes, including the final - he was amused that I didn't die face down in a gutter and was still kickin' it)

Step 16: Return home in time for the kids to bathe before going to bed
Step 17: Go to grocery store and spend cash-money on sustenance
Step 18: Brine turkey purchased at grocery store for Sunday dinner consumption
Step 19: Watch rerun of Justin Timberlake SNL
Step 20: Sleep
Step 21: Wake up/Repeat