Tea at Cafe Latte to start our Staycation

The girls and I took an afternoon trip to one of our favorite places, Cafe Latte for afternoon tea. For a very reasonable price, you get a pot of tea, a scone with Creme Fraiche, lemon curd, and blackberry jam, a shortbread cookie biscuit, a cucumber sandwich, a chocolate heart, and your choice from the delicious cakes and tarts they have in their display case.





(Not great quality; sorry. I took this with a cell phone camera.) I'm taking the next week off work. It's supposed to be a vacation, except we're too broke to go anywhere. Tentative plans: I'm going with Fiona to see the William Holman Hunt (Pre-Raphaelite) exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. We got some tickets as a door prize at our neighborhood block party to Nickelodean Universe at the Mall of America. We'll probably do the Starlight admission at Valleyfair one night (cheaper tickets if you enter just from 5 p.m. to midnight). I want to check out the Museum of Russian Art; I've never been there. We'll have a breakfast or two at Stabby's Cafe which just opened in our neighborhood (ginger-banana pancakes, yum). There are a few things we have to work around: Fiona works on Wednesday, Girl Scout potluck, school picnic, a couple overnights with friends for Delia, two stints taking belt test pictures at two different dojos). But we'll try to have a fun, and not too expensive week.

Any other (frugal) suggestions for a Minneapolis staycation, send 'em my way.

From Twitter 8-23-09

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