Slideshow Index: Alex's Summer Visit

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• Alex building a San Francisco freeway
• Kathy and Alex share a car story
• Tall grandson Adam Nelson joins us
• At Groveland School near Steve's house
• Back at Steve and Chris' home
• There was a huge Lego building exhibit at the Ridgedale Mall
• Upper floor Lego exhibit
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• The US Capitol as viewed from above
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• Alex and David clowning it up
• Adam, Maria, and Alex
• Chris and David
• Alex and Kathy in our living room
• Alex and Kathy at the Wayzata Depot train layout
• Alex got a kick out of the guy sitting in the outhouse
• Alex was dissapointed because the trains only run on Saturday
• This depot is now a tourist museum, but it was in use up to the late 1970's
• There are some really authentic model buildings here
• It's a great setting overlooking the lake
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• A Lake Minnetonka Excursion boat coming in at the depot docks
• People waiting to board the boat
• Kathy and Alex enjoy the views in comfort
• Alex at the Wayzata beach playgound
• Alex and digger
• Alex helps Kathy with the plant watering
• Our patio and back yard
• Another day at the Lego exhibit in Ridgedale
• Alex liked a lot of the exhibits
• Cute play on words for a Star Wars exhbit - Dark Mall
• They had a ton of places for kids to build things
• Alex build a neat racer
• Enjoying the race car
• I think he build a pretty good racer
• Another day, another playground. This time at Parkers Lake
• Alex and swinging steps
• Kathy relaxing with Parkers Lake in the background
• Kathy and Alex taking a walk
• Parkers Lake beach was closed due to swimmers itch
• We managed to find another playground near our house in Plymouth
• A different climbing dome
• This playground is in Wayzata near Klapprich field
• We took Alex to the Pixar Exhibit at the St. Paul Science Museum
• The Science Behind Pixar
• This was David's forte when he worked for Pixar and ILM
• Monster's Inc
• Lots of hands on exhibits for the kids to learn animation techniques
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• Took this pic for David. He knew him when he was there
• Back at Steve's for some kickball
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• Maria is just going to work at Nelson's (no relation) Ice Cream