![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Becca's love affair with Grinnell continued through her day and night there--to the point where she skipped giddy infatuation and went straight to "it felt like...home." She sat in on a class called "Critique of Culture," whose reference-points were Marx, Freud, and...I dunno who the third guy was. But she loved it (and to the shock, apparently, of the instructor, raised her hand to make a point). She slept over. It was great.
Yesterday we drove from Grinnell up to Bloomington, just outside of Minneapolis. I think this was good because she got a sense of prairie (there's lots of it). When we got here we decided to catch a showing of Gravity (damn, that's a good film) at...The Mall of America. Which is, in itself, worth the price of admission (okay, they don't charge to get in, which is also appropriate to the metaphor, but you get what I mean). Words sort of fail, except to say that there was so much to spend money on that it completely froze any idea of buying things right out of us. Okay, we had dinner, but in terms of spending money on stuff, neither of us wanted to. Weird.
I did make a brief jaunt out to Target at about 10, while Bec was doing homework and got back to the hotel just as a thunderstorm was starting. If you live in the mid-west this is no big whoop, but we don't get thunderstorms in San Francisco, and I miss them. So this was bonus weather, FTW.
Today, Macalester, then some exploring in Minneapolis.
Also: my daughter is fun to road trip with. Definitely a plus.
Yesterday we drove from Grinnell up to Bloomington, just outside of Minneapolis. I think this was good because she got a sense of prairie (there's lots of it). When we got here we decided to catch a showing of Gravity (damn, that's a good film) at...The Mall of America. Which is, in itself, worth the price of admission (okay, they don't charge to get in, which is also appropriate to the metaphor, but you get what I mean). Words sort of fail, except to say that there was so much to spend money on that it completely froze any idea of buying things right out of us. Okay, we had dinner, but in terms of spending money on stuff, neither of us wanted to. Weird.
I did make a brief jaunt out to Target at about 10, while Bec was doing homework and got back to the hotel just as a thunderstorm was starting. If you live in the mid-west this is no big whoop, but we don't get thunderstorms in San Francisco, and I miss them. So this was bonus weather, FTW.
Today, Macalester, then some exploring in Minneapolis.
Also: my daughter is fun to road trip with. Definitely a plus.