This last weekend getaway went by too fast. We got into Minneapolis early evening Thursday and headed to a social hour with all of Clay's company members. It consisted of heavy hors d'oeurves and plenty of alcohol...to which we stayed in the ballroom eating shrimp while most everyone was taking advantage of the free open bar! Friday Clay had meetings all day so I headed off to the Mall of America! Let me just say, I definitely got my exercise in. I don't think I ever really stopped walking from 10 to 3:30 with 4 floors. You would think this would be a girl's dream of having all these stores to go shopping in. Well, I think I broke a record for the least amount of money spent. :) Maybe I'm too much of a bargain shopper now and I really didn't see many sales. Anywho, it was still fun to look around. That night Clay and I went to the company dinner full of tons of great food!!! This isn't the best angle of us but it was fun to get to know Clay's work team members and enjoy the excellent food.
Saturday morning Clay wanted to go shopping ! So we headed off to the Mall again and basically did the same routine as I did the previous day. However, Clay was a better shopper than I and took advantage of the no sales tax on clothes and shoes (mostly for shoes:)!!!
They had a big dance in the middle of the bottom floor and had a Michael Jackson impersonator who danced to all the songs, including moon walking! We should have ridden at least one of the roller coasters while we were there, but the shopping wore us out!
Later that night we headed off to a dinner theater with some of the team and their guests. It was an awesome place! It had over 400 tables/booths with the stage in the front and center. Dinner was excellent and we also got free dessert with the company deal! So, we had one dessert to share before the show started, then they brought us out the other one during intermission...well planned out :) We got to see Footloose and it was actually pretty dang good! It's definitely not your Playmill Theater in West Yellowstone that I'm used to, but more of a formal type of theater which was just as much fun.
Anyway, the weekend was great, we headed out to the airport early Sunday morning and were about to load on the plane when Clay started telling a story from the news to one of his buddies that he works with. First thing, we all know that you don't ever yell "fire" when there isn't one, or better yet, "bomb" or "terrorist" or anything like that, *especially* in the airport! So, Clay's telling this story about that "underwear bomber" from a month or so ago in the news, and as soon as he said "bomber", he was escorted away. I've told him before that you don't say things like that there and now he got what was coming to him. Well, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I thought he'd be detained and since I am his wife, that I would be too and we'd miss our flight, but they only took him aside, checked his bag thoroughly, and took a sample from his hand to check for bomb material or whatever. Anyway, we finally made it on the plane and then one of his co-workers asked if they found anything. To answer, Clay said "only these guns" (while flexing his biceps) and I hit him and said "Freak, Clay, you don't say things like that" while everyone was staring at us. Wow. Luckily, no one freaked out or complained so our flight home was dandy, other than the man next to Clay who he said stunk like b.o. and onion breath. Lovely trip.
