The plans for today was to check out the State Capital and then head over to the Mall of America.
Once we figured out where to park which was a pretty good challenge with all the construction going one, we were off to visit the St. Paul State Capital. When we were heading up to the area where it was, it didn’t take long until we noticed that there was more than road construction going on. They had a huge tarp around the whole capital and it wasn’t looking too good for a tour.
We still kept our hopes up even though it was looking pretty grim and when we had walked all around the whole building I did a quick Google check and found that it was closed for 3 years to the public. Now first things first. Isn’t it so cool that you can just pull up your phone to find out those answers? And then isn’t is so NOT cool that the building is closed?
Well after a couple of photo op’s, our next stop was to head over to the Mall of America to check it out. It’s been awhile since we’ve been there and Kelcie hasn’t been there at all.
It was a perfect way to end Kelcie’s visit before we had to take her to the airport to fly back to New York.
I’m just wondering if you have a place where you took your kids when they were small and every time you go back there it reminds you of them? Well this mall sure does for Daryl and I. Lego Land is definitely a spot that we’ve spent many hours at in the past looking over every Lego box to see which one was just perfect. Do you know just how many Lego boxes they actually do have? Well they have a lot and Kyle had to always check them all out! And then the Blue’s Clues puppy showed up which was William’s favorite cartoon and it was a perfect time to snap a quick picture. 
I laughed because I thought Daryl was behind me for the picture but I was wrong. I’m getting the feeling that he doesn’t really like to be in these types of pictures. Not 100% sure, but 99.9% sure! 
We had to drop Kelcie off at the airport and after a couple of good byes later, we were heading back to Iowa to check out how the cows and animals were all doing at the farm. And on the way home I saw that someone in our town had posted on a social media that they had a peacock on their deck. Now this is bad news! I thought that maybe our peacocks found out that we were gone last night and headed to town or something. I really didn’t know anyone else that has peacocks around our town and after some phone calls back and forth, the plan was to run into town to bring it back home once we got back and switched the car for the truck. But once we got to our friends house the peacock sure didn’t look like ours and we were pretty sure that it wasn’t. I mean all of us were just checking him out and really a peacock looks like all the rest of the other peacocks. The only difference is that this guy looked younger than ours. So our plan was that if no one claimed him by tomorrow we would call our friends and try to come up with a plan. But good news! After we left thier house they called another farmer close to town and it was theirs. Whew! Good thing we didn’t bring him home with us!