Continuing Adventures in Middle America

I've been here in Minnesotta for a week now. I can't sleep so I've decided to tell you about how I spent Holloween here.

Our strategic planning conference ended at noon. Everybody was eager to go home because they all wanted to prepare for their Holloween celebrations. One of my colleagues offered to adopt me for the day. She invited me to go trick or treating with her daughters in her hometown called Shakopee. We got there early enough though. I helped them carve a pumpkin and babysit 3 kids. We had pizza from Papa Murphy's. At around 6 PM, her parents arrive in their ranger which is like a revved up golf cart. Then we started the trick or treat. It was a relatively small neighborhood, but the houses were so far away from each other, we had to pile up in the Ranger and go house to house. From where we were, my hosts pointed out to me the lights of the casino which is run by Native American Indians.

On Saturday, I went shopping with an officemate in this outlet mall in Albertville. I'm really not comfortable shopping with other people, but I am helpless without a car here. I bought Mika a Minnie Mouse dress set from this generic American clothes shop. I got a nice blazer from this this place called Dress Barn. I bought Bryan a very metrosexual outfit from Gap. Then I also bought myself 2 pairs of shoes from Rockport. I wish I could have gone around more, but my companion was in a bit of a hurry. It was a weekend and I told her I didn't want to impose on her, so we went home early.

I'm just going to hibernate at home tomorrow. I already did my laundry so I'll probably sleep for the rest of the day.