2 of 3: Minneapolis Mall

It was my second day in Minneapolis and I woke up and started wrestling with my brother. We watched Cartoon Network for awhile and went to pick my mom up after her conference. Then we got on a subway train, well, not a subway, but a train, to go to the Mall of America. It took about 31 minutes to get there and I liked the ride to it.

When we got to the Mall of America, we went inside and first we went to the Nickelodeon Universe. We found a ride we wanted to go on but then we went to the Lego store first. My brother got a Batman set and I got the Lone Ranger set. I liked it because I liked what the movie scenes look like and it seemed pretty cool. I got to make my own mini figure set so I made a banker because there was no banker in my set. And my mom said she really liked it. And my mom made a mini figure of my dad with the same head!

So after that we went to Nickelodeon Universe! We wanted to ride the Fairly Oddcoaster. It was very fun and pretty crazy at the same time. Bo was really scared on it. And he was like, "I want to get off! Mom! Mom!" He started sniffling and started crying. Well, he wasn't crying but he was screaming and I was like, "Wahhh! Aaahhhhh!" 

We went on the swing ride too. It was not very scary, just high up. I felt queasy after riding it because it was turning around my stomach.

Then we went to the Rainforest Cafe. We got to sit by a waterfall. There was a big guy standing there holding a globe in his hands. A big gold guy. And then I got a rainbow slushie drink in a cup that you get to keep. It was a special kind - it looked like a frog and it had a straw and a frog toy in the bottom.

Then I got two mini sliders, I mean cheeseburgers and French fries. They tasted good -- the food at the restaurant was American food. It was pretty good tasting and it filled me up, so that was the good thing! And for dessert I got an ice cream sandwich, and I ate that too. So it was a pretty busy day at the mall.

So then when we got off the train, we walked over and sat by a statue. I thought it was weird because it had naked people on it. I think they should have been wearing clothes. Do you? Or do you like that art?  

Next we went back to the hotel and I started building my Lego set. We watched some shows and then I went to bed. So that's the end of my day two, out of three in Minnesota. Come back next time to see my next review of day three out of three -- Loring Park.

Mini Review 1 of 3: Sushi in Minneapolis

Sunday I woke up in the morning and I went outside to ride my bike. In case you didn’t know, during my first bike practice on Friday I figured out how to ride a bike. So I was outside riding it and I remembered that I got to go to Minneapolis that day. So I rode my bike for a while and went inside. At 11:50, my brother’s football team was supposed to have pictures in 30 minutes and we had to go all the way to Ankeny so we just decided to skip football that day and go to Minneapolis early.

So my grandma got here and we left. We read books and talked and played for 4 hours. We sang the “Bottles of Beer” song and it was pretty fun on the way up.

When we got to Minneapolis, we checked into a hotel and got all of our stuff ready. And then we went to a restaurant, Ichiban, a Japanese restaurant and they have floating boats of sushi. I think that was pretty, well not pretty, but an AWESOME thing to have in a restaurant. Since sushi is my favorite food, I started taking platters of sushi as soon as I sat down. I got miso soup. The first sushi piece I ate was a bunch of rice with seaweed and then a strip of fish on the top. I got a lot of those kinds of sushi. It was a pretty fun restaurant.

There was a chef in the middle of the sushi bar. We sat in seats with the sushi boats floating around in front of us. I ate 20 pieces! It doesn’t sound like a lot, but it was. Each piece was on its own plate.

I liked the restaurant because it was cool. They had waterfalls inside and all the sushi you could eat and the sushi was floating around on boats so it was pretty much the most awesome restaurant ever.

For dessert, I got a little tin bowl of green tea ice cream. It didn’t really taste like green tea because it was really sweet. And then I went over to the wishing well and I wished 11 wishes and about 5 of those were for a new house. And after that, we left and went back to the hotel and went swimming. Then we checked out the gym, and then we watched Karate Kid.

This is one of three blog posts because I had three days in Minneapolis and I went to three restaurants for supper. I will be having more reviews soon. And hopefully I will get a bunch of views, like way more than my mom on her blog.

And I am surprised that my word “humongo-badungo” is now used a lot at Integer. There, I made your work famous, Mom.

Rice Party

Today I was in Nevada. Me and my dad were thinking about going to Mayhem, the comic book store, and we were thinking about having lunch, so we walked around a little bit. And we found a place called Rice House. It was a new restaurant, and it was a Korean restaurant. We got it to go.

I ordered kimchi fried rice, and my dad got bibimbop. We also got dumplings. My fried rice had pickled cabbage; it sounds weird but it was pretty good. It also had an egg and some fish squares. The pickled cabbages tasted sour and they were crunchy because that’s what pickles and cabbage are like. The fish squares were kind of chewy like rubber and they tasted like fish (I don’t know what fish tastes like, really). They tasted sort of…meaty? Kind of?

I tried my dad’s bibimbop. It was pretty good, and it was a teeny bit spicy. Just a teeny bit, because of the sauce. If you’re wondering why the picture looks weird, the rice came in a different box, so that’s why.

The dumplings tasted like they had some sort of meat inside. I forgot what kind. They were not very crunchy, but they were good. Even without the soy sauce. There were also some vegetables inside of it. Even though I can’t remember what meat and vegetables they had inside it, they tasted pretty good, still.

If you want to try the bibimbop, if you get too much hot sauce it will make your tongue hurt, so don’t get too much hot sauce. Rice House is a good restaurant. You should go there sometime, but don’t get too much food because a sign there said, “Get sides that you can eat, do not waste food,” so don’t get too much food. Just get the right amount, that’s my advice for you.

Jami Graves' Review: Hot Dogs

Jami Graves bought me at the auction. Well, not like took me away from my parents but I had this thing where I said I would eat any food that anybody wanted me to eat so she bid like $50 and won the auction. And those $50 went to United Way. United Way is a helpful organization where people help people who are in trouble, education and health. I agreed to be in the auction to finally get a food review up because it's been like 50 days practically...

That's why I'm calling this the Jami Graves' Review -- it's the first time I've ever called it after a person.

Message to Jami: I liked that hot dog place. Good job finding that hot dog place. We might go to it often.

OK, let's get started. We were going downtown and we found the hot doggery Hotshots. I do not like that name. It should probably be Rockets Hot Doggery. I ordered a hot dog called Cruiser. It had onions, a gigantic hot dog (aka beef hot dog, aka weiner, aka just normal hot dog), mustard and ketchup too. It was huge. I chose it because, I don't know, I didn't want to take much time in the line and it looked good on the menu.

I had to take pretty big bites to get down to the beef (aka hot dog). It tasted pretty good -- it was like a hot dog sort of mixed with bacon, I guess. And then it had a bunch of grease and that made it taste good. It was pretty good. It was a good hot dog. Really good. The size was absolutely ridiculous! Because it was humungo-badungo. Well that's basically all to my review. Hope you guys like it because it took a lot of time eating that thing. Oh, and I had lemonade for a drink. I had a side of pasta salad. The pasta salad tasted pretty good -- there were different colored pasta. It had herbs and dressing on it. I don't think it had any kind of vegetables, which is weird that they call it a salad, right?

The restaurant looks pretty good. It's by Jimmy John's and not far from the art sculpture place. Inside the restaurant are pictures of famous people, famous movie stars. I think young people will like eating there. I'm not saying that old people can't because they can if they want to. Anyways, it's good for anybody. Well, I mean it's not healthy but it tastes good. You gotta watch how much you eat there or you could really get unhealthy.

That's all I have to say.

It's not too late to volunteer or give money to the United Way organization. People need help everywhere so you could volunteer or give money now. Well, the end.

Bad Day

Today, did I like today? NOO! Today was horrible, terrible absolutely dreadful because…… IT SNOWED!!!! I didn’t want it to snow today. Its May. May is spring, not winter. I hate winter when it’s in the wrong spot. I like winter when it’s in December, because that’s my birthday. I like it in January and February too. But snow in may? Whoever heard of snow in may after it was just a really hot day outside!

Has mother nature gone crazy? Or does she just have the flu and sneezes a lot so snow comes down?

So at first, I woke up and was like, “hhm, rain.” Then I noticed it seemed to be going slow. And I knew it was snow because it turned white. So I ate my breakfast in the van, but first I had to go out and get my football out of the snow, because it was my special one. Then I had to get the mail. It was soaked but it survived.

School was just like normal. Today I finished my story of “the three little ostriches and the big bad nothing.” It’s a funny story. If you could hear it you would probably think it was funny too. So after that I started another story called “the three little salmon and the big bad grizzly bear.” I thought it’d be good because they’re kind of rivals or something. At projects, we worked on our model grain bin. We’re learning about corn, by the way. So we were working on our grain bin and we were doing pretty good but we need a way to get the corn up through the auger. We were doing sort of good but we ran out of time so I guess we’ll work on it tomorrow.

Well lunch and recess, same. But at recess we got to play this game called Trouble and I had to be red and a kid, my friend named Ryan, he was one space away from getting his last person home, and it was 10, but I got a six on my turn and got to roll again and got a five so I got home and I won the game. My friend Ryan got second, my friend Cooper got third but my friend Sophie got last. I was pretty happy that I beat a kid who everybody thought was perfect at stuff – Ryan – aka Mr. Perfect.

Today at bright horizons, a place that I hate, that’s my after-school place, we couldn’t go outside, because of course, it was SNOWING. So the stupid thing was we had to stay in the same darn spot the whole time, and we couldn’t even go to the gym, which would have been boring too, but not as boring as where we were. Finally my mom came and picked me up. We went to my brother’s school and picked him up. We went home and had this awesome supper called thai chicken. It was thai chicken with rice and peanut butter sauce, and that made it good. And there were peanuts and cilantro or herbs and cucumbers, green onions. It was hot. And I like hot stuff. But when I took a bite of the rice, I spit it out because it was way too hot. Way way way too hot. So I drank some water and that was cold and it hurt my nerves. Then I decided to go outside and get some pictures of what winter was like in May. The tulips were surviving. The poor red tulip bent down. I hope it didn’t die. I walked around. Me and my brother had a mini snowball fight. Nobody hit anybody. Then I came in. That was my boring day. Except for the good dinner by my mom. She’s a good cook. A really, really, really, really, really good cook. The end.

My brother bo’s side of the story:

I had a good day. I had a yummy breakfast. Pancakes. And Gavin wasn’t here. And the supper was really good. The goodest part of the supper was the bread and the cucumbers and the onions. And I really liked the peanuts. And the blackberries tasted really good and there was just three strawberries. And I had a good day. I watched one Curious George.  And I am about to go to bed. And I taked a bath. And that’s my story. And I did quiet reading time at my preschool.

And now that’s my reading. There. That’s it. That’s my reading. There’s my story. It’s not that much of a long one like Mazy’s. And me and my brother played football downstairs. And my brother taked a shower. And my mom named me Bo. And my mom has glasses and she has blonde hair. And she has flowers on her pants. And black pants! And that’s it. 

Pictures taken by the boys tonight:

Bulldog Burgers

Well, today we were not planning to come here. We were actually planning to go to a bunch of Mexican places. My mom said if I helped with moving cleaning she would take me to a awesome hotel called Honey creek. We were actually going to go to Jethro's Barbecue on Thursday But we were going to Honey creek on Thursday so we went to Jethro's today.

When we got there it was packed so we went around the restaurant and found a fine parking space by the sign (if you can't see me that well i might have went back too far).

One reason I like Jethro's is because it has TVs everywhere. Number 2 reason because it has a bunch of barbecue sauces to choose from. Number 3 reason their food is awesome.

Do you know who Adam richman is? He is from man V.S. food. He came here and lost the challenge!!!!

I choose the sandwich called papa's,with waffle fries. I had to make my own sandwich so I put fries on it.

All the flavors in my sandwich were amazing together.The smoky burnt taste on the sandwich went perfect with the juicy taste on the inside of the burger. The damp leafy taste of the lettuce went great with the garlicky taste of the onions. The cheese and the bread and the tomatoes were not a flavor combination.

I rated the different barbecues here is what I think: Carolina barbecue 1. Georgia barbecue 1. Hot barbecue 8. White barbecue 9. Jethro's barbecue 10.If I were a judge, I would say the owner of Jethro's wins $500,000,993!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The end.please tell me what you think of how I described the flavors.Thank you to everybody who commented on my very first review that I typed by myself yesterday. And my mom did not type a single thing on this.

The Blue Cheese Goop

This week I got a school break so that's why I was eating out on a Monday. We didn't know we were going to go here in the first place. I'll tell you the story of what was happening before that.

We were planning on going to a restaurant called the tamale factory. But it was closed. So I said I wanted to go to a dive. So we went up west. We first found subway but thats a really popular place. Next we found a restaurant called lily or it might have been pronounced another way but we didn't pick that place. Next we found several mexican restaurants that were all no no's. Next we found a italian restaurant but we were not interested in italian food. Then we got to beaverdale. We found some restaurants that we were interested in. One of them was called flara's. Since it was in cursive we knew it       was a fancy restaurant. And plus it looked a little to fancy but my mom liked the chairs. Next we tried a  place called good son's. I saw a bud light sign so i figured it was a american food place. So we had to walk through the freezing cold wind. When we got there the restaurant was.....CLOSED!!!! I was mad at that point because we walked through the freezing cold for nothing. Well there was another restaurant called tally's. So we walked through the wind to the restaurant. We found a restaurant finally.

When we got to the restaurant, the first thing that was good about the restaurant was that it was pretty warm inside. But when I saw the atmosphere in the room I thought it was a vegetarian place but when I saw the bacon wrapped radishes on the menu I knew this was going to be a me friendly place. And guess what there was for an appetizer? bacon wrapped  radishes with blue cheese fondue. But the funky thing about it was that instead of bread there was bacon wrapped radishes. I think the best thing about it was that the creaminess of the cheese mixed with the crunch of the radish and the tenderness of the bacon I just think that that was a awesome mix.

Then I ordered my lunch. I got a B.L.T. wrap. I got it because I thought it sounded cool. For a side I got tally's chips.They are tally's homemade potato chips. I like them because they have seasoning on them the seasoning added a little pop of flavor to the dull taste in the salt. I think that adding the seasoning to the chips was very creative. The B.L.T. wrap was very good. It did not taste like a normal B.L.T. for some reason the mayo or the bread made the lettuce taste better. The tomatos made no difference. But I think having IOWA cider bacon was the key flavor. Plus it was pretty messy. The end. Other info: mazy typed it this time. If i can keep writing my reviews I will do them whenever I get the chance. Please give me your opinion if wether  you want my mom to type my reviews or if you want me to type my reviews.