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:
| 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
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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.
