Tammy and I had our first free court time at Mega Pickleball today. We practiced various drills getting ready to play others.
It was a bit windy today but otherwise good time on the Three Mile Walk at the Minnesota Arboretum.
Nice morning at Getaway Motor Cafe in Carver. Great coffee and food. Love the vibe. Surprise bonus that they have Cardigan Donuts on Saturday! ☕️🍩
We watched Game Night tonight. Fun movie!
Two times this week I attempted to add a link to Pinboard and found out I had already added it. In one case I added it two years ago and in another five years! It always makes me chuckle a little bit when that happens.
We all had a fun time at Lucky Shot Pickleball taking the beginner class tonight.
Another Ice Throne. This time at the Ice Palace in Delano.
Helped my brother transfer his domain name ikeating.com from GoDaddy to NameCheap this morning. We were able to complete the whole process in about an hour. As long as you do all the steps right it wasn’t too difficult. Also see his blog post covering the move.
We had another super fun evening at Activate in Roseville playing fun games! Highly recommend checking this place out.
Me looking serious on the Ice Throne at Ice Castles.
Mazie brought a variety of chocolate and coffee back from Costa Rica to share with us! 🇨🇷🍫☕️
I have about 130 posts with embedded “tweets” on my blog. If those folks delete their account I delete my embed of those. It seems like every couple days I get errors because the original tweet has been deleted, and the account is gone. The steady stream of folks off of X continues.
Mazie returns home tonight from 4 weeks in Costa Rica at CIEE Monteverde in the mountains then fun trip to Manuel Antonio on the beach. She’s had an amazing time from the sound of it. Her biggest adventure ever. I’m very happy to have her back home for a bit before heading back to college. 🇨🇷
We watched Inception tonight. Tammy and I are both sure we saw it when it was released but didn’t remember much of anything. Tyler thought it was a really good movie. 🍿
School cancelled for tomorrow due to extreme cold. Tyler was ecstatic to hear the news. Forecast is for -15 °F at 8am tomorrow and the cold snap breaks around noon. 🥶
The Weekly Thing was supposed to be back this last weekend but I decided to extend the winter break one more week. Expect the first issue of 2025 next weekend!
Chicago Coin’s Basketball Champ. 🏀🕹️
We completed “The Museum” at Puzzleworks today in 58m 48s. There is a whole genre of escape rooms that are creepy and this was our first that was even a little in that genre. We had a great time solving it with our nephew Levi. 👻
Deep Woods Cabin Escape Room
Today we returned to Copper Cat Escape Games in Brainerd so that we could try the Deep Woods Cabin room. When we were here yesterday we were talking to Allon after finishing our room and loved his passion for Escape Rooms. He said this Deep Woods Cabin room was his favorite and we wanted to give it a try. We had a great time!
The room has a great backstory and you start in the woods outside of the cabin. Your first task is to figure out how to get in. The story is rich and the puzzles are just perfect. There is a wide variety of things to figure out. Your not just pounding codes into locks but have to really put the scene together.
We were completely immersed from the very beginning. We were challenged but everything connected together. I’m proud to say we completed the room with no clues and 13m 08s on the clock. There were several puzzles that made us smile as they came together.
We were very impressed with Copper Cat Escape Games. If you live in the Twin Cities it is a two hour drive and I think it would be worth it if you like escape rooms. You could book two or three of the rooms. Deep Woods Cabin is definitely one of the best, if not the best, that we’ve done in Minnesota.
See list of escape rooms.