thanks Ray, most appreciated. larry
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Ray Champagne <r...@raychampagne.com> wrote: > > Take a walk down by the riverfront, take a quick tour of the Gold Medal > Flour museum/building down there, it is a pretty neat piece of history, and > the Mississippi River is right there, nice boardwalk to go on. While you > are there, take a walk inside the Gutherie Theather, it's a cool piece of > architecture. > > Brit's Pub on Nicollet has a fantastic roof area with 4 full lawn bowling > courts that are open to the public on weekend afternoons. If it is nice > out, they have a good selection of English style beer and food. > > Take a walk up/down the length of Nicollet Mall - it is basically a long > pedestrian mall with a bunch of good bars/pubs. Try The Local for some > good Irish fare, El Barrio is a cool little Mexican place. > > Of course, you should experience both the skyway system and the MOA while > you are here. The former is pretty amazing and vast, you can get almost > anywhere in the downtown area within it. If you've never seen one, it is > kinda neat. The latter, even if you're not much of a shopper, is worth > seeing, and is only a couple of dollars to get there via the Light Rail. > Catch any Bloomington bound train on 5th street to get there, about a 25 > minute ride. > > Tell us where you are staying/working, I can provide you with some close by > options. Are you downtown, or uptown? Uptown has some fun places, but > honestly, the crowds are more "young" and not my speed anymore. The > problem with downtown is it is very business - people come in to work, then > flee to the burbs at night, so it makes for a pretty dead downtown at night > and weekends. > > I'd meet up with you for a brew or two, but I am headed to Vegas tomorrow > to celebrate/watch my wife cry as we ring in her 40th birthday this > weekend. :) > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> I'm here for a week on a project. Any suggestions on where to go, >> decent brew pubs that sort of thing. >> >> thx, >> larry >> >> -- >> Larry C. Lyons >> web: http://www.lyonsmorris.com/lyons >> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/larryclyons >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353544 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
