Minneapolis Weekend

DH and I decided to take a trip to Minneapolis for a short weekend trip and to hit up a Twins game. In the back of our minds, we knew the Vikings were home the same night as well. We thought about scalping tickets, but on our way up to the cities, we found some on Craigslist at 10:00 AM. The guy told us to meet him at a liquor store to pick them up at 1:00. Lets see here, our first ever Craigslist purchase and its going to go down in a liquor store?! We were a little bit leery but at least it was still light out, and if it looked too shady we were going to just skip. Fortunately, this was a HUGE liquor store in Apple Valley. It was seriously the nicest one we have been in. So since the vikings tickets panned out, we were on our way to hit up BOTH games! Here are some pictures from the Twins game.

And here are some pictures from the Vikings game. We ended up walking from Target Field to the dome since it was only about a mile and it took us about 20 minutes to walk.

After the game it was time to finally hit up our hotel. We were super tired, so we were super excited to find out how nice our hotel actually was. We stayed at the Double Tree by Hilton and the best part is, they give you warm chocolate chip cookies upon check in! We were pleasantly surprised to find a super comfy king sized bed, a sleeper sofa, 40" flat screen TV, a chair, desk, and a single brew coffee machine.

The next day we hit up IKEA and bought Macyn her birthday present and Christmas present. Its nice to get some shopping done when stores aren't so crazy! This trip was kind of unique for use. We are usually big planners and this was a last minute thought. We decided to go to the Twins game on Tuesday (game was Saturday) and we booked our hotel Wednesday night. The hotel was kind of hard to find because there was SO much stuff going on in the cities that weekend - Twins, Vikings, Lynx, State Fair, Renaissance festival. So I wanted to stay under $100 for sure for hotels, and most of them were completely full. The only ones I found was the Super 8 by the MOA and the Hilton one we stayed at. The rooms ended up being the same price at both places, so we opted for the Hilton instead.

We also bought our right field line tickets off the Twins website for $39 each. We got our 20 yard line lower level tickets to the Vikings game for $25 each. (Face value was $122!) I guess sometimes it does pay to procrastinate a little. If we would have planned all this much earlier, it would have been a lot more expensive. All in all, it was a great weekend, but if I were to do it all again, I would opt for going to one game Saturday and one game Sunday. All the games in one day was almost too much. Maybe next year!