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I can't believe we've lived here 5 years without making it out to Lark Toys – a specialty toy store with a beautiful hand-carved carousel, a toy museum, and mini-golf… what's not to love?  

We ended up making a day out of it… window shopping (of course Emma and Carter bought little rubber ducks – all they could afford), carousel ride, looking through the old toy museum (the kids loved the Santa display); then off to have lunch on the Mississippi in Wabasha (home of the movie "Grumpy Old Men") to watch the boats; and a stop before the trip home at Nelson Cheese Factory for ice cream out on the benches.  

I love drives like this through the small towns of the midwest, and never get tired of the view out my window of cornfields and blue sky and clouds.  Carter has prayed often since we went "to go back to Lark Toys, and that the Santa Sleigh (one of those stationary parts of the carousel which actually  has nothing to do with Santa – it's full of ostrich eggs-) will move".    Don't worry, Carter – we'll go back.