plus fifteen!

I’ve always thought this was a nice building.
Today we started out here at what’s called the “Barley Mill.” We didn’t go inside or anything… We went to Eau Claire Mall thinking that we’d walk over to the park and get some pictures of the river. And then we realized how cold it was. Walking in the mall we saw a sign that said that we could enter the +15 at the Sheraton, which is just across the way from the mall. So the lightbulbs in our heads went on and we started off on a trek through the hallways of the +15 (for those of you who don’t know what it is, the +15 is the world’s most extensive pedestrian skywalk system with a total length of 16 km (10 miles) and 59 bridges[1]. The system is so named because the skywalks are approximately 15 feet (4.6 metres) above street level.)  And it’s heated.

We ended up at the devonian gardens, a large indoor urban park, according to wikipedia and took lots of pictures in there too.

They even have a playground in there.  No swings though, so jonah was disappointed about that.  But he wasn’t disappointed when he saw the millions of kids running around, and the parents who were totally ignoring them.  I saw a kid standing on the highest pole in the world and just as he clapped his hands like julia roberts told peter pan to clap if he believed, this kid’s dad laid himself down on the bench, likely trying to recover his sorry butt from last night’s drinking binge.  Of course I have no idea what the guy’s real problem was, but when your kid is standing from tall heights, clapping his hands, not getting any attention from you, you have to hope you aren’t about to witness the worst accident in the history of devonian gardens.

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