Sioux Falls + Pumpkins

Man, fall is a busy time of year! The RHSMB ended up winning it all at their competition in Des Moines a few weekends ago, and then last weekend, they won big in Sioux Falls! They came in the Grand Champions in both competitions and took home several captions. Today, they are headed to US Bank Stadium for the state level championship. Fingers crossed that the RHSMB does fantastic!

My mom, G, and I made a mini-vacation and headed to Sioux Falls to cheer them on. SF has a lot to offer and we had fun exploring the city and enjoying the nice, warm weather (until the evening when it got pretty dang cold.)

We stopped at Minnesota's Largest Candy store on the way to SF. It was unlike anything we had seen before!

And then we visited the Green Giant...can you find G?

Wonderful adventure at Falls Park in SF

We streamed prelims at our hotel, and then headed to the stadium for finals.

From my stadium seat, I could see the Rosemount trailer! I took that as a good sign :)

We squeezed in a fun family trip to the MN Zoo this past weekend. The weather was absolutely perfect and the theme "Seasons" was one of the neatest we have seen in all of the years that we have gone there. It was a great mid-week break from all of the craziness that we're dealing with.

Not pumpkins, but really cool animals hidden in the walking trail trees!

Look at this guy's face...!

School is really busy. Work is really busy. LIFE is really busy. But, it's mostly fun, with a lot of hard work thrown in there, and most importantly, this too shall pass. At some point, we'll have a moment to stop and breathe!

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