SURVIVED MY VISIT TO THE MALL OF AMERICA

There is nothing inherently dangerous about walking about in the Mall of America. My concern was that I would physically hold up as I am gingerly walking these days as I get used to my inguinal hernia. Since I did not push myself, just walking, I was fine. My fitbit recorded more than 16000 steps for the day, which was nearly 4 times the amount of walking I have been recently accomplishing. After the visit to the Mall of America, my daughter and I visited the Minnehaha Waterfalls and after that we jumped back in the car one last time to visit the sculpture garden at Walker Gardens. Aside from the fact that we had a great time today, my day was greatly enhanced simply by avoiding pain. Three more days until I have my initial visit with my surgeon.

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Your Food Diary For:

Monday, April 18, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
Hyvee - Apples & Cinnamon Instant Oatmeal	520	108	6	12	640	36
Sage - Red Delicious Apple, 1 medium apple	95	25	0	1	2	19
	615	133	6	13	642	55
L U N C H
Panda Express - Mixed Vegetable	80	16	1	4	540	5
Panda Express - Mushrooms Chicken, 1 entree	170	11	9	12	750	4
Panda Express - Broccoli Beef Entree	150	13	7	9	520	7
	400	40	17	25	1,810	16
D I N N E R
Generic - Whitefish, Lightly Blackened, 20 z filet	610	0	6	133	5,780	0
Generic - Grilled Brussel Sprouts, 2 cup	130	26	5	11	46	0
Whole Foods - Chicken Breast, Baked	500	0	11	94	1,208	0
	1,240	26	21	237	7,034	0
S N A C K S
Whole Foods - Banana Chips, 0.33 cup	200	23	13	1	0	13
WHOLE FOODS - NATURAL WASABI GREEN PEAS, 2/3 cup (30 grams)	240	38	6	8	480	4
	440	61	19	9	480	17
Totals	2,695	260	64	284	9,965	88
Your Daily Goal	2,716	339	90	136	2,300	101
Remaining	21	79	26	-148	-7,665	12
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
	*You've earned 786 extra calories from exercise today

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Our day started at 10:15AM and we practically had the Mall of America to ourselves
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After our visit at Mall of America we ventured outside and drove to Minnehaha Park to see the  falls.

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Our last stop of the day was the Walker Sculpture Garden

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from the walkerart.org website....

SPOON BRIDGE AND CHERRY

Artist

Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen

Date

1985-1988

Dimensions

overall 354 × 618 × 162 inches

Materials

aluminum, stainless steel, paint

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Claes Oldenburg is best known for his ingenious, oversized renditions of ordinary objects, like the giant “soft” three-way plug and overturned bag of french fries in the Walker’s own collection. He and Coosje van Bruggen, his wife and collaborator, had already created a number of large-scale public sculptures, including the Batcolumn in Chicago, when they were asked to design a fountain-sculpture for the planned Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The spoon had appeared as a motif in a number of Oldenburg’s drawings and plans over the years, inspired by a novelty item (a spoon resting on a glob of fake chocolate) he had acquired in 1962. Eventually the utensil emerged—in humorously gigantic scale—as the theme of the Minneapolis project. Van Bruggen contributed the cherry as a playful reference to the Garden’s formal geometry, which reminded her of Versailles and the exaggerated dining etiquette Louis XIV imposed there. She also conceived the pond’s shape in the form of linden seed. (Linden trees are planted along the allées that stretch before the fountain.) The complex fabrication of the 5,800 pound spoon and 1,200 pound cherry was carried out at two shipbuilding yards in New England. The sculpture has become a beloved icon in the Garden, whether glaceed with snow in the Minnesota winters or gleaming in the warmer months, with water flowing over the surface of the cherry and a fine mist rising from its stem.