summers full of green: minnehaha falls

Last Saturday I met up with my JTwee boy, Will, at Minnehaha Falls. We saw lots of families and babies and dogs and funny giant rental Big Wheels and tricycles and other strange bicycles with names like Deuce Coupe and Single Surrey. We came up with schemes to avoid paying $16 per an hour to ride around in a silly covered bicycle wagon but never quite got our joyride. Instead we enjoyed the spray at the falls like LBJ (there's a plaque) and then wandered around by statues and posed near lime and wilderness. (Sorry this post is full of so many euphemisms, dudes. Totally unintentional.) We set up my self-timer and took a picture in the trees. Will and I ended up climbing a bit to find a good spot for our photo and I nearly got stuck on a really simple hill because I was wearing t-strap flats instead of sneakers or boots. Minnehaha Falls is nice because it's like the wilderness but fake, for city people. Most anywhere you'd need to go is paved and there are cement stairs leading from the overview bridge to the river.

(Gunnar Wennerberg statue)

(Will + lime)

(in the fake woods)

("hiking")

(self timer shot)

We worked up an appetite being fake outdoorsy (well, Will actually is outdoorsy, but our hike was fake) so we used GPS to bring us like four blocks to Punch. Technology is so good because it can bring you to delicious Neapolitan pizza in unfamiliar neighborhoods. I had margherita pizza and Will had a calzone filled with spinach, mushrooms, garlic, and ricotta. Both were real good. Like, I'm still thinking about Punch good. Is a 20 minute drive too far to go for pizza?

(driving)

After Punch we were kind of stuffed but still went to DQ because we needed somewhere to hang out. Will got a dilly bar and I made fun of him for choosing butterscotch. I got a buster bar and then we saw a baby with mullet and took a sneaky snapshot. Then we saw a strange massage chair. Then a lady with a bulldog showed up and a woman with headphones showed up and took pictures of the bulldog and then they both wore headphones and the bulldog lady gave the other lady a massage. We took secret snaps again. After that Will and I hung out in an alley behind DQ and enjoyed being Midwestern. Then hooligans showed up in the DQ parkinglot and then sped off again real quick. A bit later a fire truck and a lady on a cellphone showed up looking for the hooligans. Then squad cars started showing up (earlier some cops had been enjoying themselves a DQ so that was weird) and Will and I decided we'd had enough of DQ so we went home. It was kind of the greatest day ever.