Five Things I love about Minneapolis
What do I love about where I live, Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA)?
I have been living in Minneapolis for more than two years now and by far I enjoyed living in the city. Although I still don’t get why dim-sum in the Chinese restaurants here should only be available in the weekend; and I still can’t cope with its cold and long winter. Sometimes I also feel the season jumps immediately from the winter (a very long one) to the summer. Nevertheless, there are awesome things about Minneapolis that I adore and make the livings here are delightful.
First: the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. It’s just open last year and I love it. There are numerous sculptures around the garden plus a field for miniature golf. Dogs are allowed in the garden, thus, it becomes our regular dog walking visit.
Checker and Dante at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Second, Pianos on Parade in the downtown Minneapolis every June. 25 pianos are placed around the downtown for everyone to play. It’s free and it’s fun to watch. Although I don’t play piano, I love listening to strangers playing piano in the public space, and most of the time, they are awesome players!
Third, the lakes in Minneapolis. Lake of the Isle is our favorite lake…hm, no, maybe Lake Harriet. Or Lake Bde Maka Ska (formerly known as Lake Calhoun)? Wait, I think Lake Nokomis is better..oh, well, the city has too many lakes to enjoy all season, but we’d prefer the summer. Of course 😀
Fourth, colorful street arts in the city. I will prepare a special blog post about this!
Street art in Minneapolis
Fifth, frozen waterfall is just 20 minutes away. OK, I am not a fan to the winter season but to seeing a frozen waterfall is a memorable one.
Frozen Minnehaha falls
All images are taken using mobile-phone camera Samsung Galaxy S6 edge.
indahs: dive, travel & photography 
It was good to tour some of what’s new since I was last there, great captures!
Thank you! Gladly sharing some new updates of Minneapolis 😉
Thanks for the tour! Love the cherry and all the pianos for the public! What a great idea!
Truly a pleasure 🙂 Thank you for your visit and kind comment 🙂
Loved seeing the photos. The frozen waterfall is my favorite one! I am not a winter person either, Indah!
I love seeing the waterfall and its frozen state…just dislike the cold lol – Thank you!!
I am not a winter person either Indah! waiting for spring in Boston.
Seru bangett kotanyaa.. Kalau main piano depan umum pasti yg dah jago2 yg PD ya 😀
Danaunya banyak, luas2 ga Mba?
Iyaaa…ahahahaha..kalau gak jago malu kali ya 😀 Lumayan gede danaunya, bisa sailing dan paddle boarding gitu 🙂
Wow, the idea of Piano on Parade is awesome! Totally.
I agree!! Thank you!
LOL, dim sum only served on the weekends! Dim sum is so good, you’d think people would want to eat it all the time 😀 Then again, maybe the market isn’t big enough for dim sum every day over there. Here in Melbourne we also have pianos around the city every now and then! They are always so colourful, just like the one you showed in your photo. Never too many lakes to enjoy. All round beautiful shots, Indah 🙂
Thank you so much, Mabel! I love dim sum (especially the Din Tai Fung ones 😀 ) – I think the demand is high here as the crowds are quite crazy during the weekend – I have to come at 10 am to get the seats – no reservation is allowed! But you could be right that if the dim sum is available every day then perhaps not many people will come to the Chinese restaurants during the weekend 🙂
I still remember that post you wrote just after you moved to Minneapolis. Can’t believe it’s been two years! One question, did you notice any strong Nordic influence in the city? I read that Minnesota was the preferred state for Scandinavian immigrants to settle in the past.
Time flies very fast! Yes, you are right, the Nordic heritage is still strong here that influence food and perhaps the “Minnesota Nice” attitude 😀 – but the recent years, there are numerous refugees from Hmong and Somali. As in Minneapolis, the city hosts a lot of Somali refugees and of course there are plenty of Somalian restaurants around in the end (and I like Somalian food 😀 )
Oh I would love to try Somalian dishes!