Grand Forks, North Dakota to Eau Claire, Wisconsin

We got to Minneapolis just before midday, in time for a river cruise at 12 on the Minneapolis Queen which is a renovated paddle wheel boat, on the Mississippi River.  Unfortunately we didn't get a photo of the boat, but here is one of the views we got.

The city skyline is in the background.  On the left is a power station that burns natural gas.  On the right is a metal recycling plant.  It gets in the metal and turns it in to chips the size of cornflakes, then it gets taken by barge to where ever they melt it down.
On the boat there was a guy wearing a Hurricanes shirt.  Richard got talking to him, and he was from Wales looking at stock feed in the USA.  So of course they had indepth farming conversations!
Then we went to the Mall of America (MOA) which is the largest mall in America.  520 shops, and a theme park in the middle!!

It was absolutely crazy!  There were four floors of shops around these rides. 
On the way to Eau Claire we stopped at a Fireworks shop.  You can buy fireworks all year round here.  Richard is keen to get some, but I'm not so sure we should.  He asked the shop assistant where we could let them off and she said mostly anywhere in Wisconsin.  But when he asked if it would be alright if we let one off in the car park she said (in her lovely Wisconsin accent), that it would probably be frowned upon.  We just laughed and laughed.  She probably thought we were quite mad.  We didn't buy any fireworks.