After a 12 hour flight and years of planning we finally made it to Japan. I'd been looking for a decent deal to Japan for ages. Tracking on Google Flights. Searching different points websites. Then finally a flight showed up on Points Yeah the same week Meadow and Theo were off for 3 days. After a nervous half hour of transferring points from our credit card to KLM Air France, we got 4 direct tickets to Tokyo Haneda! Day 1 But first we had to fly and fly and fly. Ready for our longest flight ever. At least we were lucky and got a direct flight. Theo looked nervous. I couldn't really see the kids too well since I was stuck in the center rows with strangers. Meadow, Brooke and Theo got the better end of the deal. He had been worrying about this trip ever since he learned we were going to have to sleep on the plane. Meadow was excited to see that the flight had anime. First time in a long time that I've had a meal on the plane. My chicken curry was pretty good. We got an...
I had two days planned for Doors Open. Scott wasn't feeling great on Saturday so we did what we could on Sunday. Meadow was too busy crafting to join us. I did teach her to make matcha before we left. Our first stop was the Groveland Gallery. I was more curious to see the inside of the house after learning about it on my 1970's walking tour . You could only see the first floor. It had been a gallery so long that you could hardly tell it was once a home. There was a lot of traffic at the Sculpture Garden. We thought we'd go check out what was going on. Some art fair was going on. Next we checked out the Masonic Scottish Rite Temple. I wasn't really sure what to expect. This was once a church, but was later converted to a masonic temple. The masonic crowd these days was very, very dorky. And that's coming from a self-proclaimed nerd. I'm still not sure what exactly they "study" here, but I guess let them have fun. We took the now completed Hennepin ...