Did your family visit the Minnesota State Fair this year? What did you do there… and more importantly, what did you EAT? Or maybe you didn’t make it to the fair. Maybe you don’t even like the State Fair (gasp!) with all of its crowds and animal smells and heat.
Regardless of how you feel about the fair, you still probably have a handful of fair foods that you crave. My personal top three are pronto pups, cheese curds, and funnel cake, and on the years we skip the fair, I really miss them. Did you know, though, that you can find a lot of popular fair foods right here in our community?
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It figures—right?—that on one of the most uncomfortably hot days of this summer so far, our air conditioner would stop working.
We realized that our A/C wasn’t running just as my husband was headed out the door to a meeting. So, I jumped on Facebook to the STMA bulletin board group to see who the community was recommending for a fix, and the name I kept seeing there was Rol Air Plumbing & Heating.
Rol Air was able to send someone to our house within a couple of hours, and he arrived exactly when they said he would—so helpful to me as a busy mom! Jay (the owner) talked us through what was wrong with our A/C and helped us weigh the pros and cons of fixing just one part or replacing the whole system. My husband and I both felt like Jay was someone whose experience and recommendation we could trust.
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As your kids are getting ready to head back to school, now is a great time to consider signing them up for music lessons. Not only is there a great window here where you can capitalize on your kids’ back-to-school spirit, it also makes sense to build in music lessons to your school-year routine.
Rogers School of Music wanted to give us a taste of what it’s like to take lessons at their music studio, so I reached out to a friend of mine here in St. Michael whose 7-year-old daughter was interested in learning piano. Ana has now been taking lessons at Rogers School of Music for two months and has already learned a lot—and had a lot of fun doing it!
EDIT: Sadie’s Cafe is now CLOSED. See their official announcement at facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1263404743793842&id=113407192126942.
The following article is from July 2017:
Everyone’s favorite local coffee shop just got a major upgrade. As of this week, Sadie’s Coffee of St. Michael is now Sadie’s Café and will be serving a full menu of breakfast items such as waffles, French toast, omelettes, and more.
Many of the more traditional menu items are named with local love—the Saint Michael, the Hwy 241, and The Colonial—while others are bound to surprise you, like the Barnyard plate that includes BBQ pulled pork, bacon, sausage, and eggs… plus hashbrowns and an English muffin. (Uffda!)
Earlier this week I shared a list of the family and kid-friendly events at Albertville Friendly City Days.
One of the events that my family is looking forward to is the HealthSource Kids Day, coming up on Friday, June 9.
Bring your kids out that day to enjoy games, a bounce house, face painting, crazy hair, food, and more! In addition, Crossfit STMA will be there providing fun exercise classes for the kids.
Kids Day takes on place Friday, June 9, at 10am–1pm at HealthSource in Albertville. (near Coborn’s) >>
(Click to view this event on Facebook)
The event is sponsored by HealthSource, Coborn’s, Tree of Life Wellness Center, and Crossfit STMA.