Our first adventure

So I have been telling Holly and Sam all spring that we are going to have a summer adventure. So far we have had a lot of fun but today the adventure started.

Rob and I got here in St. Louis Park, Minnesota yesterday. Today has been our lazy day. We ventured out to get groceries and explore a little but mostly we have spent the day reading and playing inside. About an hour ago I was washing the dinner dishes. Rob was watching a program and the kids were running around the house like crazy people. Rob came into the kitchen and asked me to turn off the water. I did and we began to hear a strange wailing siren outside. Not being from here we were unsure about the siren but immediatly thought tornado. Rob got online and sure enough our area was in the middle of a tornado warning. We kinda stared at each other for a minute. We have no idea what to do in a tornado. We started looking for answers online. Meanwhile I should say that everyone outside looked like it was a perfectly normal thing. There were people leisurly unloading groceries from their cars. We closed the blinds and sat Holly and Sam in the hall then turned on the news and waited. The tornado warning was eventually cancelled but as I listened to the news broadcast I heard the anchor say that St. Louis Park was experiencing hail. At that moment I heard little plunks on the window pane. I ran to the window and Nickel sized hailstones were pounding down. I mean if you played marbles as a kid and had some grannies these were pretty close. It was very cool. So cool in fact that after watching with the kids for a minute we decided to move away from the windows. After the storm moved on Rob and I went outside to check for damage on our car. There were small leaves and branches everywhere; it looked pretty messy but our car was fine.

Our adventure turned out to be mostly show which is just fine by me. I am not anxious to ever experience a real tornado. It surely was something unexpected and a memory fun to have especially since nothing happened.