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August 10, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

We have significantly increased our escape room activity in 2025! Just past half-way through the year and we are already at 23 and 82 total since 2016. 🤩

Bar chart showing escape rooms played per year from 2016 to 2025, peaking at 23 in 2025 with 87 total across all years.
August 10, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

QMSB Trip - Day 16

Check out of Baymont in Mandan. Coffee stop at Joyhouse before leaving town. Stop for gas and Culver’s in Fargo. 11:23 AM enter Minnesota. Stop at Cocoa Maas in Monticello for delicious Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream. Back home in Minneapolis! 🏠 Go to day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, …

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August 9, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

A smattering of my cousins that were at Amanda & Reid’s wedding tonight.

Group of cousins gathered behind the bride and groom seated at a decorated head table at a wedding reception.
August 9, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

QMSB Trip - Day 15

✅ Quebec ✅ Montreal ✅ Stowe ✅ Bismarck Tammy and Mazie go on independent runs around Downtown Fargo. Jamie goes to Youngblood Coffee Roasters for a coffee. Check out of Jasper Hotel. Breakfast at Prairie Kitchen. Drive to Bismarck, ND. Stop for lunch at Fireflour. Explore …

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August 9, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Gemini Quantum Quest @ Breakout ND

We all stopped at Breakout ND today in Bismarck to do the Gemini Quantum Quest game. The game is a split-start so Mazie and Tyler went to one place and Tammy and I to another. After getting through the initial puzzles we joined forces and saved the space station with 11m 15s still on the clock! Room 82!

Four people smiling together in a dimly lit room with green LED lighting and a wall-mounted TV behind them.
August 9, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Nice way to start the day at Youngblood Coffee in Fargo, ND.

Latte with leaf latte art in a brown ceramic cup on a saucer, beside a New York Times newspaper on a wood table in a coffee shop with a roaster visible in the background.
August 8, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad
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QMSB Trip - Day 14

Tammy and Mazie go for a morning walk around Fergus Falls. Breakfast at Toast Cafe: Swedish Pancakes, Frikkadiller Toast (Swedish Meatballs), French Toast, Avocado Toast, and Fluffernutter to share. Drive to Prairie Wetlands Learning Center. Walk trail at Prairie Wetlands. Drive …

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August 8, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Lovely day for a Guinness.

Guinness mural on a brick building reading Lovely day for a Guinness with toucans carrying pint glasses, above street-level utility boxes
August 8, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Loved this find in downtown Fargo — #FARGOMARIOWALL.

Super Mario Bros pixel art mural on a brick building in downtown Fargo, showing question blocks, brick blocks, a Goomba, hills, and a warp pipe.
August 8, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad
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Tracks in Fargo, ND.

Two parallel railroad tracks stretch into the distance through downtown Fargo ND with a historic depot visible on the right
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