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Wabasha Street Bridge entrance decoration & search lights |
Most of you know that I spent the past weekend in St. Paul, MN attending The Creative Connection Event. While I was there, I had a little time to wander with my camera. Something I used to love to do & I thoroughly enjoyed my little camera-adventure!! Here are a few of the results...
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Wabasha Street Bridge over the Mississippi River |
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Another entrance to the Wabasha Street Bridge |
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A Barge on the Mississippi |
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Barge going under the Wabasha Street Bridge |
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Minnesota Boat Club Building built in 1910 |
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Charlie Brown & Snoopy in Landmark Park {Charles Schultz was from Minneapolis} |
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Heimie's Haberdashery est. 1917 |
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Landmark Center, was the PO, Court House & Custom House in 1902 |
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Another view of the Landmark Center. It now houses various art organizations. |
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The St. Paul Hotel built in 1910 |
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The Mighty Mississippi from the Wabasha Bridge |
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Under the Wabasha Bridge |
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Stairway leading back up to the Wabasha Bridge |
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St. Paul Women's City Club back in 1931 |
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The Art Deco Architecture of the City Hall Annex |
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Dark alley in Downtown {on way back from dinner with friends} |
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Bar doorway in downtown {what can I say, I love dark, seedy areas & doors!} |
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The Gopher Bar Coney Islands, {on the sign: George, Cheri & sons and Andy & Phyliss too!} |
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Twin Cities Magic & Costume in an 1880's Victorian Bldg. |
I really loved wandering around & looking at all the old buildings. St. Paul is a really beautiful city with lots of history among the new! I hope to visit again some day!
And what would a visit to St. Paul be without a little venture to The Mall of America?
This place is CRAZ-Y! 3 stories of shops, food & entertainment, including an amusement park!! They even host the Annual ScrapFest every year - right smack dab in the middle of the mall & all throughout you will find scrapbookers taking classes & making things from various vendors! It's just nuts!
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The Rotunda area with a giant classroom in the foreground & the Archiver's "store" behind the curtain! |
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Rotunda "classroom" |
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Tim Holtz's Class |
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Tim teaching |
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ScrapFest Vendor booths in front of Bloomies! |
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Make-n-Takes lined the walkways between the stores! |
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Women lined up for the MnT's!! |
Don't get me wrong, you know I'm a diehard scrapper, but I don't know if I could handle this kind of chaos & take classes in the middle of the mall!!!
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The top of the Graphic 45 booth, one of my faves!! |
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Above the LEGO Store! All Made of LEGOs! |
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The LEGO Dragon |
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GIANT wall of LEGOs! |
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I loved that wall!!! |
I couldn't pass up taking a picture of this great retro-style shop that I've never seen before:
Then, I had to wander through Nick Universe to take picts for Maggie! There were at least 4 roller coasters, a train, a log ride & various other moving, twirling, bobbing rides with Nickelodeon themes!
I decided to play around with the settings on my camera with the Carousel since I didn't know any of the riders. Kinda fun, huh?
Lastly, what would a visit to Nick Universe be without a stop in the gift shop for Maggie?!
Did you say "Spongebob?"
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Just had to bring one of these home for her!! |
That's it! The last of my stuff from the St. Paul/TCC Event!
There's a series of posts going up every day at
blog that goes into more detail about The Creative Connection & what I did there.
This very well could be the last post over here as I decide if & how to incorporate this blog into the Teeny blog.
Hopefully you'll stick around for the ride!
TTFN!