Blogs from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, North America - page 3

Happy Tuesday! Hello friends, I am writing to you to share my love for eating for on-the-go traveling. Grubbing while traveling may seem like a hectic, stressful and expensive add on of your travel. Let me tell you there is plenty of stress free-budget friendly snacks that you can make ahead of time or prepare prior to your travels! One of my personal favorites is mixing up a batch of granola prior to traveling. When I say traveling I mean anything from backpacking, flying, camping, or a road trip up north. Granola is an easy to make health friendly snack for all to enjoy :) This morning, on my day off, thanks to my flexible float teacher job, I whipped up a batch of coconut-mango granola. On my trip to Hawaii this past January I was ... read more

Geo: 44.9785, -93.2653Weather: 75 sunny AM, 70 and thunderstorms PM Location: Wisconsin Dells to Minneapolis Highlights: Only in my hair Lowlights: Kids bickering and final mommy meltdown, thunderstorms #of Swearwords: 75...2 driving through rain, the rest during meltdown People we met: Jessie (waitress who quick her 9 to 5 job to go back to school and travel. She wants to live for happiness not money. Activities: Noah's Ark and Chula Vista Waterparks Hotel: Springhill Marriott (Just outside of downtown, two queens and pullout sofa, free breakfast and walking distance to a nice outdoor mall with lots of restaurants. Helpful hint: Stay at a hotel that offers free tickets to indoor and outdoor waterparks so if it starts thunderstorming and outdoors close, you have a back up. Restaurants: Crave in St. Louis Park (delish) , MN, Hearty ... read more

The weeks are going faster and faster. I was in a sampler week which meant the kids left on Wednesday. Lauren, one of the girls I worked with this week, asked me if I wanted to go stay at her house on Wednesday and Thursday which was really nice. Her house was super fancy and it was nice to have a decent shower and sleep in a proper bed. It was nice to finally have some healthy fresh food and watch DVDs and relax. I also sent a few packages home because I was running out of space in my bags and I have a restriction on bag and weight limit for the contiki. Overall it was a pretty chilled out and relaxed week which was nice for a change. On Friday night hannah and I ... read more

This week has been one of my favourites so far. I worked with this girl named Turi and we are a lot alike. we had one of the youngest girl cabins and they were all fantastic. It was so much fun and they were adorable. one of the guys here, Taylor, lives in river falls in Wisconsin and he invited a group of us to visit on Friday night. We went out for a few drinks around the town which was a lot of fun! everyone is so laid back and very friendly which was great. People do not dress up like we do back home but it was a nice casual evening. The next day the camp director invited us all to play a game of soccer and have a barbecue at camp, it was ... read more

This was a tough week! Each year we have one week dedicated to kids with asthma and it's called camp super kids and it is always full to the max. On top of a full camp, we have roughly 40 nurses and 10 or so behavioral management staff that stay at camp for the week too. Four guys from a other YMCA camp came to help out this week, as did some staff from last year. A lot of the campers had behavioral issues which makes for a challenging week. I was initially assigned to be a 'floater' which meant I stay with the management staff in a separate cabin and help out where I can with the other cabins. However, on the second day, one of the boy counsellors had to leave due to family ... read more