Baseball inside and bobbling heads - Minneapolis

Maggie does a pretty sweet T-Rex impression. It's almost as life-like as that LEGO T-Rex in the Mall of America.
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Normally we avoid malls like the plague, but in this land of cornfields and cows, what do people do but build huge malls?  We decided we had to check out the Mall of America mainly so we can say that we’ve been there.  It also has a baseball tie, as the old stadium (The Met) was on that site.  There’s even an old stadium seat bolted to a wall.

We went downtown to check out the city, only to find swarms of people outside the Metrodome waiting in line hours before the game for their Justin Morneau bobbleheads.  That’s right…we stumbled into Minneapolis on bobblehead night.  So naturally we jumped in line and snagged ourselves mini Justins, and then hung around the dome for batting practice.  What a weird place that is – baseball inside?  It felt more like a hockey game than a baseball game.