At our very first Minnesota Gophers basketball game in the Barn Lofts! 🏀
POAP 7550517 at TeamSPS Cyberweek 2025.
I’ve been having fun playing Clash Royale with Tyler — he’s my coach and is really good at the game! The game had some big changes recently that are not being well received by the community. He wrote up where he thinks Supercell is going wrong. Spot on! 🎯
Excited to see the MSP airport has been added to the Airport POAP Rally! Follow the Rally. ✈️
Mazie is doing her final packing and preparation to depart tomorrow for her semester abroad in Barcelona. I’m excited and proud of her, and as her Dad nervous and hopeful, as she embarks on her biggest excursion yet. Starting tomorrow I’ll be counting the days until we visit her. 🇪🇸✈️
Escape Rooms of 2025
This year we jumped way into our Escape Room adventures, more than any previous year. We completed 25 rooms in 2025!
This year we went through all of our records and made sure we had a complete inventory of all of our rooms, resulting in our Escape Rooms list. We are getting close to having 100 rooms so that we can become TERPECA voters! Speaking of TERPECA, we did seven rooms that were in the top 100 for 2024 of the Top Escape Rooms Project. Note the ⭐️ next to those rooms in the list.
It was a super fun year for escape rooms! 🤩
Our log for 2025 was…
- Copper Cat Escape - Granny’s Recipe Rescue in Brainerd, MN. See post!
- Copper Cat Escape - Deep Woods Cabin in Brainerd, MN. See post!
- Puzzleworks - The Museum in St. Paul, MN. See post!
- No Esc Puzzle Collective - Sherwood Forest in Shakopee, MN. See post!
- Enigma Adventures - The Istanbul Gambit in Bloomington, MN. See post!
- Puzzleworks - The Hospital in St. Pual, MN. See post!
- Doldrick’s Escape Room - Crazy Train ⭐️ in Orlando, FL. See post!
- Puzzleworks - The Dungeon in St. Paul, MN. See post!
- Puzzleworks - The Anomaly in St. Paul, MN. See post!
- Enigma Adventures - Pirates of the Spanish Main in Maple Grove, MN. See post!
- Escape City - Mindmaster Industries in Calgary. See post!
- Solve Escape Rooms - Caper in the Escape Room in Waukesha, WI.
- Solve Escape Rooms - 14 Floors Below in Waukesha, WI.
- Escape in Time - Gold Rush in Madison, WI. See post!
- Cabinet Mysteriis - The Dreamwalkers ⭐️ in Quebec. See post!
- Cabinet Mysteriis - 2002: The Bovine Odyssey ⭐️ in Quebec. See post!
- Cabinet Mysterlis - Screaming Metal ⭐️ in Quebec. See post!
- Escaparium - Lost Island of the Voodoo Queen ⭐️ in Quebec. See post!
- Escaparium - Wardrobe for sale ⭐️ in Quebec. See post!
- Escaparium - Magnifico ⭐️ in Quebec. See post! Number 1 on TERPECA 2024 and 2025!
- Escape Room Alexandria - The Experiment in Alexandria. See post!
- Puzzled Escape Rooms - Time Machine in Fargo. See post!
- Breakout ND - Gemini Quantum Quest in Bismarck. See post!
- Escape Game - Ruins: Forbidden Treasure in Nashville. See post!
- Escape Game - Yeti Escape Room in Nashville. See post!
We had a great time solving the Scooby-Doo™ and the Spooky Castle Adventure room at Escapology today. It was our first room at Escapology and we’ll be back. Finished in 39m 46s — very fast for us! Room 86!
I’ve always thought it would be amazing to go to a World Cup match and with the 2026 FIFA World Cup being in North America it is time! Tammy did the research and Tyler and I will be at Lumen Field in Seattle on July 6th watching W81 v W82 in the Round of 16! ⚽️
Stone Pit Old Fashioned (bourbon, apricot, demerara, peach tincture) at Animale’s. Tasty. 🥃
I made it to Arena 23 Valkalla in Clash Royale! 🙌
Pokémon Pocket Collection at 100 Days
In September I started playing with Pokémon Pocket as the First Anniversary celebration was coming up. Tyler had been collecting on Pocket since launch day. The anniversary celebration had a ton of promotions associated as well as the limited edition Deluxe Pack ex. I did some in-app purchasing to get Poke Gold and help catch up a bit, I’ve also subscribed to the Premium Pass. I’ve created a pretty complete collection in the first 100 days.
Ran into some Kubb players from LiHiKubb practicing for the Loppet Kubb Tournament in Linden Hills park on our walk today!
We had a great time completing the Loose Sleuth escape room at Puzzleworks. The puzzles in the room were just right — hard enough to be challenging but never so difficult that we felt lost. No clues! Solved in 49m 05s. Room 85!
Birthday Kingfield and London Fog at Five Watt. ☕️
Impromptu stop at Tower Games and got this Penny trainer card. Like the art a lot.
Sadly Sunstreet Breads is closing — our last visit as a family to this great bakery!
Great cappuccino and Raspberry Cream Scone at Sunstreet Breads for birthday breakfast.
POAP 7547791 at Jamie Thingelstad's 54th Birthday.
Lasagna assembly complete! Carreras, Domingo, and Pavarotti are done singing. See this delicious pan in 45 minutes!
