Mall of America? You should skip that and go to Midwest Military. John has some cool stuff, then again; if you are trying to save money that may not be a good idea.
I wish I knew of that place before hand. Though i'd probably end up buying things.
Well any way todays trip.
Today started with me seeing a possible minor problem during vehicle check out. Around the gasket for the thermostat housing there has always been a few drops of anti freeze nothing major or any thing but just a little that seeped out. Today it looked like Anti Freeze sprayed out, not enough to notice any dropage in the fluid level, but somthing to keep in mind. After figureing that it should not be a problem. I set off to see the mall of america.
I made it with no problems. I must say that place is huge. I only explored a part of it as I was not planning on staying more than two hours. It even looked like I was going to be able to stick to that plan for a while too. Than I pased the Ace store. The had an episode of dogfights playing and I think I ended up watching the entire episode. The animations were better than I remembered.
They have a lego store there, and I don't care what you say Legos are cool no matter what your age. They had a few of those giant scale Lego builds made out of 10,000 of the small blocks. I don't want to know how long it took some one (or more likely a team) to build them.
After I rode one of the roller coasters I left. My plan was to to follow 61 down the mississippi river and then over to lincolns tomb. At one point I turned down a road seeing if it lead me to a place to get a good picture of a bridge. It did not so I went to turn round in some resturant parking lot. A guy that was leaving the parking lot flaged me down. He was interested in the mini. It turned out he owns a really nice 64 mini, which he invited me over to his place to see. He had a nice little collection of old british cars. We talked for a bit than I left and continued down 61 probably to the annoyance of other travelers as there was plent of hills that I had trouble holding speed up so I had a line behind me.
By this point I started getting low on fuel (which for this trip to me means the needle is at the half way point on the guage) and began looking for a place to refuel. Plenty of places to get gas around but diesel seemed hard to find. (there may have been places a mile off of 61 but I was not going to go search for them) eventually found a place and refueled. This Is where I had my first real trouble. First there was the minior thing of the pump automatic shut off for when the tank is full was slow. So diesel overflowed my tank and created a little puddle on the ground. Not that big of a deal just a waste of money. Then there was the big issue. I went to start my truck, turned the key here a clunk and nothing (as if the starter engaged just would not turn). I thought to my self "What the..." and tried again with the same result. I thought to my self "Please don't do this to me girl" and tried for one last time. Starts right up. So I have a problem some where along the line. After that I decided I to tired to deal with any thing now and just put Lincolns Tomb into my gps and headed off. Of course the GPS just brought be back to I-90E for now and then I fount a motel for the night since it was geting late.
Tommorrow I guess I'll find out if she decides to start.
No, don't even try.) There is so much to do your weekends should never be boring.
Every time I get finished with a job I head home as fast as I can! Will have to take my family on something like this some day. Good luck with the rest of your trip. 
