Kalahari, Nickelodeon Universe & Grandma's (Thanksgiving 2016)

By Michael

We left Coloma in the morning and pointed the car west. The drive took us down through Chicago and across Wisconsin, and by early afternoon we were pulling in to the Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells.

No pictures from the road today, just the highway and the miles. We checked in and let everyone stretch their legs after being in the car.

By Michael

A full day at Kalahari. We played a round on the indoor mini golf course, Thomas lining up his putts under the big elephant sign, and wandered past the ropes course climbers overhead. The lobby has a carved stone elephant built around a fireplace, trees painted up the walls behind it.

We left in the late afternoon and drove north into the Twin Cities, arriving that evening at the Radisson Blu Mall of America, connected to the mall itself by a skyway, for the next couple of nights.

By Michael

A full day at the Mall of America. We parked in the ramp (level P2 East, Georgia, easy to remember by the apple) and spent the morning and afternoon in Nickelodeon Universe, the indoor amusement park under the mall's glass roof. We rode the Log Chute, the Rock Bottom Plunge and the Orange Streak, everybody in one car or another, and walked past the giant LEGO robot and helicopter built over the LEGO store.

We stopped in at SEA LIFE Minnesota Aquarium and posed for their photo with the rays overhead, and later in the day the kids visited Santa, who was already set up for the holidays. We wrapped up the evening back in Nickelodeon Universe with the bumper cars before heading back to where we were staying.