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Pretty cool.  We drove straight to MN on Thursday.  Then hung out Friday afternoon with Josh as he tidied up the house and got ready for the weekend.  Amy came home early with the twins, and Mike and Frankie showed up too.   Then we went to the Mall of America and met Nick and Maddy there.  We went to the Nickelodeon Universe, which is what they are calling the amusement park in the center of the mall now.

It gave me a horrible, horrible headache.  So I didn’t do any of the rides.  Jim, Josh, and Amy went on a roller coaster. And then Jim and Josh climbed around on a giant jungle gym type thing that they had to wear harnesses on.

While waiting for them, I talked to Channing a bit about how Mater and Kylie were doing, and they were behaving.

After that, we went back to the house and had some yummy chili that Frankie had made, and just hung out and talked. Then we watched My Name is Bruce.  Interesting movie, that!  Crashed out.

The Mad Scientist blocks I bought for Julia and Marie were a big hit with all the adults.
Saturday we went to the Severs Corn Maze, and it was a lovely day for it.  We didn’t do the whole maze for the first time.  Josh is less ambitious when he has to carry a baby through the whole thing.   Not that I blame him!  Marie loved the corn pit, and didn’t want to get out, and Julia wanted nothing to do with it.

They had the petting zoo again, it was a little better this year.  The best part was they had some red kangaroos who had babies in their pouches. So cute when the baby poked his head out to look around.

We went back to the house and had some brats and dinner.  There was much talking and looking at of pictures of Zombiefests of the past, making us all feel old!

Then we went to the Frightmares at Buck Hill.  The first year for this new Halloween attraction.  4 attractions actually at a local ski place.  It was all pretty awesome!  We got to ride up a people mover and walking through a graveyard, and they had giant animatronics and people walking around with monster costumes, like something out of an evil Dark Crystal.  They even got some screaming out of me. We lost Nick inside one of the haunted houses, and Jim and I went through together and Nick had to go through by himself! He actually got out before us, and everyone was starting to worry about what happened to us.  The end of it had these walls that pressed in and you had to fight your way out.  It was awesome!

Then we went back and had some more chatting, then when everyone else burned out, the rest of us watched Drag Me To Hell!  Everyone was hoping Mac guy would die, but…  no.   Nick really hated the movie, but I didn’t think it was so bad.  Just a humorous horror flick!