Gettin' Cultured in 2010

Gotta say..

I've been gettin' pretty cultured in the past year. Most are in MinneSNOWta, but let's start it off in a warmer climate...

Gettin' ALL THE WAY TURNT UP

 
PCB: Panama City Beach.  Spring Break 2010 kicked my ass! 24-hour one way road trip to Florida.  Wildest time of my life.  Would change it for the world.  Well... maybe the whole my-car-got-totaled-when-I-wasn't-even-in-in and we-had-to-take-a-rental-back-to-Minnesota part.. But that's just a side note tho..   

Pretty sure MAUER is up!

Downtown MPLS: Target Field. I LOVE THE TWINS!  I was more than excited to get to experience the second Twins preseason game played there.  Thanks Papa, you da bestttttt.  Just one of many games I went to this '10 season.  

How 'bout a beer?

D-TOWN: Grandma's Marathon Week.  EPIC.  Always is.  Woke up drunk at 6am from drinking whiskey Friday night.  Drank beers while half and full marathoners ran by (like my cousins).  My activity: J-Wallin' on tables and givin' out beer bongs.  Canal Park for the beer tents at night.  Taking in Lake Superior.  What a great weekend.

Oh the irony...

MPLS: Sculpture Garden.  The ORIGINAL day of "getting cultured."  Out with my girls K. Choh & DZ.  Doin' a catch-up on our lives.  Them on their big girl jobs, me on my internship.  GOOD TIMES, GREAT OLDIES.  This was on of many in a large installation at the Garden.  LAUGHED MY ASS OFF at how ironic it was for many of us... ;)

Front row, bitches.

STP: Excel Energy Center presents LADY GAGA's MONSTERS BALL.  Now, I have been to a good amount of concerts, primarily rap, punk, and boy band concerts, but wow... LADY GAGA IS AN ENTERTAINER!!  I felt like I was in an elaborate, interactive music video that just kept going, and going, and going... Like an Energizer Bunny!  For real though...  BEST.CONCERT.EVER.

MPLS: The Orpheum shows WICKED.  For those of you who don't know, I LOVE MUSICALS!  Love them dearly.  It started when I was in kindergarten, and I was watching GREASE at my cousins' house, I think... Couldn't stop me from the singin' & the dancin'.  When I heard "Defying Gravity" on Glee last season, I had to figure out where the song came from.  When I realized it was from this musical, and that the musical was based on a novel, I HAD to read the novel before I saw the musical!  Everything made sense!  AMAZING time with the family.  Would love to see it again, but with Idina Menzel as Elphaba and the rest of the original cast.  :)

MPLS: Orchestra Hall.  Just this last Saturday my sister and I went to a symphony there.  All the pieces had a Bach influence... Or something like that.  Haha.  Apparently you're not supposed to take pictures there though... My sister and I were taking some candid FB profile pic sesh, and an usher was NOT IMPRESSED needless to say.  But hey, gotta love the Minnesota Orchestra!  Click the link to find out more about them!

  

 

Love gettin' cultured.  More to come!!  Know of any other gems to visit in Minnesota?  Let me know.  I'd love to experience them, and blog about 'em.  :)

♥MoJo