minneapolis weekend

this past weekend, we drove up to minneapolis with some friends to visit some other friends and had a very fun time.  and lots of pie.  there’s a little place, about halfway there where we like to must stop for pie whenever we drive up north.  they have the tallest meringues:

and check out the pile of candied pecans on this slice of pecan cream cheese pie (can you see the cream cheese on the bottom?):

i ordered the pumpkin cream cheese and it was lovely.  mr. happy stuff got the pecan cream cheese which just about sweeted him out for the day and the slightly tart raspberry sour cream (visible in the foreground above) was happily consumed by one of our traveling friends.

other non-pie highlights of the trip included visiting the downtown minneapolis library and discovering the “post secret” project display (i didn’t take any photos because i wasn’t sure that was allowed.),

crafting wooden bookmarks using permanent markers and flocking:

visiting crafty planet (although i was very jealous that i don’t live in the area–especially when i saw the awesome finger puppet felting class that was going on in the back of the store.  they were making little monsters!!):

malt and onion rings at snufffy’s:

and staying up until 1:00 in the morning.

we had fun exchanging favorite websites and blogs and chatting about crafting.  i helped my friend create a new banner for her etsy shop and now i know how to make one for myself if i ever get around to doing that.

the morning that we left, we woke up to a dusting of snow and i had to take a few fun photos of that too:

i’m already looking forward to my next trip out there.  maybe i’ll come by train next time!  but then i’d miss the pie….

thanks for a wonderful visit!