The Macy's Flower Show!

It was absolutely superb! My family and I went on a Sunday with some friends and had a great time. It was very crowded but I still managed to get a few pics. Here they are...

The theme was Towers of Flowers

Here's some pictures of my family and friends...sometimes people tried not to get a photo taken of them that's why the facial expressions are a little different.

And of course, it was downtown Minneapolis. (I love it there!) So there were towers there as well.

It was a great time!

~L.J.

Narnia movie annoucement...

The Bielinski family owns all three Narnia movies!
Now let's see...you haven't heard anything about Narnia on this blog yet, have you? Hmm, maybe you have. Well, this is probably the last Narnia movie post. Well, here's three pictures...

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Prince Caspian

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

And now, as Reepicheep said in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader just after he knocked Eustace down after their duel: "And that, is that!"

~L.J.

A Trip to Glenna Farms

Today my family and I went to a maple syrup making farm. We go almost every year and take the tour and see how maple syrup is made and things like that. It is always a lot of fun. I love their syrup! We also met a family we knew and hadn't seen for a long time there. We also saw a co-worker and his wife from Dad's work. It was pretty cool! Unfortunately, I did not get any pics of the friends we met there but I did get some of the farm. I don't understand much of how maple syrup is made, it was kind of hard to hear with everything so loud, but it still was a good learning experience. Here's some shots...

The sigh welcoming us to the maple fest.

There were free pancakes as well. Anyone who goes be sure to get one! They're pretty good.

Inside the store there were taste samples. Many of the salsas were amazing!

A display of Maple Syrup. I like how the light reflects on the glass.

And now some pictures of the tour...

A man (the father of the man who owns the farm) running the thing (I can't remember the name) that boils down the sap into syrup. Here's an intersting fact. It takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup!
They usually get 5 gallons of syrup made in a half hour.

It was in a kettle like this that maple syrup used to be boiled down in. There really isn't sap in the kettle shown, it was just a display.

And of course, we were in Packers territory which is clearly shown by the helmet below...

Sue and I made sure to go armed to the teeth. :)

We had a great time.

~L.J.