Mill City Museum Tour
This past weekend we went to the Mill City Museum which is in Minneapolis. This museum is inside the old Gold Metal flour buildings and focuses on the milling industry that built Minneapolis. It was very interesting to hear about the history of the area.
Milling flour was a very dangerous business.. You may not think so but flour has 70 times the power per weight than gun powder. As you mill flour is produces a fine dust that spreads in the air. If there are any sparks or flames this fine powder ignites and causes all the other particles in the air to also ignite which causes a large explosion. The mill building either was blown up or burned down 3 times in it’s history.
They gave a presentation that demonstrated the power of flour dust.. I was able to record it on my phone in the low light, take a look below.
Otherwise this weekend was spent giving the house a much needed full cleaning. I washed the floors, Danith cleaned the bathrooms and the kids helped pick up all of their toys. Max did not help, I need to train him better I think. 🙂
Tomorrow Danith is hosting a Bunco party at our house, so I am packing the kids up and taking them to Chucky Cheese. Brandon is excited and I am sure Aiden will enjoy himself once we get there.
Countdown to Halloween
Halloween is coming, time to get out the plastic pumpkins, witches and broomsticks. Time to scare all the little kids that come to our door with fake eyeballs, intenstines and scary noises. Well as much as I would like to scare them most of our neighborhood is too young so I will stick to funny stuff… For now.
Saturday morning was the Cottage Grove Halloween Parade and Brandon got be in it. He was part of his Cub Scouts float and got to throw candy at the spectators, and I do mean throw. The kids initially started throwing them nicely but midway through the parade they were literally whipping them at the people. Good thing it was not too hard of candy. [Brandon is Indiana Jones]
After the parade Grandma and Grandpa Braun stopped by. Grandpa dropped off a really cool little pedal car for Aiden. He loved it and tried to pedal on it right away, he is just a bit small but I bet next summer he will be crusiing on it.
Brandon and I followed Grandma and Grandpa to their hotel at the Casino and went for a swim. Unfortunately, I left our packed backback at home. Brandon had his swimsuit on under his clothes so he still got to swim. I got to lounge back and watch them swim. After they got kicked out of the hot tub (A small sign stated 14 and up) we went to have supper at the casino.
Brandon had a blast swimming and in the parade so it was a good day.
Sunday was the first day of Brandon’s Faith Formation class. He really enjoyed his teacher which is no surprise since his teacher is Danith. Aiden struggled through mass, but the good news is that the church has a daycare opening next week where he will be able to play while we are in mass.
After church we hit the video store since it was snowing out! Brandon picked out Iron Giant and Danith wanted a Wii game called Boom Bloks. Brandon liked Iron Giant but not as much as he liked Iron Man.
I will have to post an update about Boom Bloks another day but in short it is a very fun game.
