Streets for the People, Not Cars

  Minneapolis, MN

Tacos!!!!

Open Streets

Today we walked over to a nearby neighborhood to enjoy Open Streets.  During the summer Minneapolis closes down various streets on Sundays and invites people to use them the way we used to use streets, to walk, sell things, and meet up with our neighbors.  San Francisco does this very well and their Sunday Streets program is very popular.  

Our walk there took us through the Walker Art Center Sculpture Garden.  This is Spoonbridge and Chery - Coosje van Bruggen, Claes Oldenburg

We went early and things were a little sparse

As we walked to the more main area there were more vendors and exhibitors.  

Prince was from Minneapolis

Our Streets was here, an organization I can get behind.

Transit was there giving away swag.  I got a commemorative Pride transit card for my collection of transit cards.

Remembering George Floyd.  He was murdered by police here in Minneapolis.

After exploring Open Streets we explored a new brewery.  La Dona Cerveceria.

I got the Enmolada and then got the 2 barleywines to go.

When we got home we grabbed Francis and took him to a local dog park.

That was it for today.  If you missed Walker Art Center, check it out.

Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate and Tacos

 St. Louis, MO

The hat says, "Chocolatier for a day".  It was more like 30 minutes which was way better.

Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate and Bissinger's Chocolate

Today we too the Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate chocolate factory tour.  It was free and you got to try chocolate so it gets a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED rating from us.  We arrived just before our 11am tour (you have to call them because they live in another time).  You can walk around the chocolate store deciding what you want to buy while waiting for the tour.  They also have a sample of the day that you can sample.  Today's sample was Dulce De Leche and it was very good.  It's the day after Easter so all of their Easter Candy is half off.  What to get?  What to get?  

The tour was short and sweet (see what I did there?).  They talked about the history of Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate and the history of Bissinger's Chocolate (started in 17th Century France) since they bought it 2019.  Both companies were making chocolate in St. Louis and Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate continues to make their own chocolate as well as Bissinger's using the original Bissinger's recipes.  

What up B?

Tempting

I wanted to arrange the letters to spell POOP but I restrained.

$4 for chocolate that didn't quite break correctly.  Count us in!

Some people do a fancy Prom Invitation but others do a Solid Chocolate Breakup

This is Donna's "I'm Excited" look and it is fantastic.

We spent a bit over 7 minutes in Chocolate Heaven.

This is a 100 lb slab of caramel or caramel if you pronounce it that way.

Caramel cubes getting coated in chocolate.  

All of the designs on top that indicate the flavor are done by hand.

We ended up buying 3 bags of the Oops chocolate.  We couldn't pass up the amazing deal.  It was so much cheaper than the other stuff and still the same chocolate.

Terror Tacos

After the tour we ran a few errands and then dropped off the van and walked to Terror Tacos.  It's a top 100 restaurant according to the St. Louis Dispatch.  I would link it but there is a paywall.  Terror Tacos serve amazing vegan Tacos in a horror themed taqueria.  The tacos were AMAZING and they had a great beer selection.  I also liked their t-shirts.  I don't have a St. Louis t-shirt yet so I think we will go back for more tacos and a t-shirt.

The aforementioned t-shirts

A They Live Lamp

We split a Taco Flight so we could try a few

I also took a few photos whilst running our errands which included a grocery store.

Cheap Sweet Potatoes!

Dr. Pepper beans?

That's it for today.  If you missed How About Another Post With Pinball In It? check it out.  We played pinball.