Love From Minnesota

Wanted a Minnesota hoodie for my visiting son-​in-​law and the conveniently located Love From Minnesota had exactly what I needed and within my budget!

Souvenirs and gag gifts inside the IDS Center at ground level. All the Minnesota and Minneapolis trinkets you need to show that yes, you have been to the City of Lakes. I managed to pick up a couple of postcards and a fridge magnet. Yes, I’ve been here.

Who comes to this store?!?
Me, apparently, out-​of-​town businesspeople, and anyone hoping to find any of the following items:
–Minnesota cultivated wild rice
–Olé & Lena fortune cookies
–Stuffed animal moose, deer, bear, loons and fish
–Fishing-​themed boxer shorts
–Olé & Lena fortune cookies
–Olé & Lena fortune cookies
–Native-​American handcrafted birch bark decorations
–Hunting-​themed Christmas ornaments
–Olé & Lena fortune cookies
–Minnesota shot glasses
–Olé & Lena fortune cookies!!!
Someday I WILL find an excuse to buy the Olé & Lena fortune cookies, but I don’t know about any of the other stuff. It was fun to look at for humor purposes, but do people actually *like* receiving things like this for gifts? I don’t really think so, but even still, I was amused by the things they had for sale here.
Oh yeah, and I saw a book that looked interesting too – it was about the history of the Dayton’s Department Store. I hope my library has it because it looked like it had a lot of really interesting historical pictures of downtown Minneapolis from the early 20^th century.

This store is good for three purposes
1) Gag gifts
2) Out-​of-​towners
3) Gifts for homestay families
Honestly, the store is corny; however, it is the first place I go when I am about to travel abroad. All of my families have loved the maple syrup tin houses, the Minnesota passports and the wild rice. It’s one of the best places to get something that is authentically Minnesotan.
You can’t help but laugh when you end up in Sarajevo, Bosnia at a B&B on the hill and get served palacinke (crepes) with maple syrup in a tin log cabin, with a loon, and Love From Minnesota stamped on the bottom. It just doesn’t get any better than that.