Busy Weekend and Eating at Redstone American Grill in Eden Prairie, MN

September 9th, 2007 in Geocaching, Restaurants, South Metro

Well, I’m trying to get back into posting now that the crazy time at work has slowed. We had originally planned to be in Hibbing this weekend for a bean bag tourney and after that fell through we planned on heading to Duluth for a day trip. Kim decided we should stick around at home and find other crap to do.

I had originally planned on bowling at Apple Place Bowl, where we’ve never gone before, but found the hours on Fridays to be prohibitive. Instead, Kim suggested that we go out to see Shoot Em Up on opening night.

Kim wanted to see the movie because of fucking Clive Owen. I took a look at the trailer and the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes before heading out to the movie and I’m glad I did. They all claimed that it was over-the-top ridiculous and didn’t take itself seriously and they were absolutely right. Between killing people with raw carrots and feeding a newborn with a lactating hooker instead of formula, this movie had more intentional plot holes than anything I have ever seen before.

Even with the unbelievable amount of unnecessary killing, general non-sense, and people walking out of the theater mid-movie, I found the film to be hysterical and I was laughing out loud throughout most of it. While I started right from the get go, most of the rest of the movie-goers took until 3/4 of the way through the movie to join me.

On Saturday I spent the majority of the day caching with Chuck in and around the South metro from Lakeville all the way to Prior Lake and back to Burnsville before picking up Kim at the 28th Ave transit station and heading home. Chuck and I picked up around 30 caches each and only traveled about 35 miles with several miles of hiking in Cleary Lake Regional and Ritter Farm park included. Not bad for the types we were looking for!

After heading home and showering, we got ready to join Kim’s Aunt and her cousin at Redstone American Grill in Eden Prairie for dinner. I had the Seared Ahi Tuna with an asian noodle salad and Kim had their backyard BBQ chicken. The rest of the table ordered the spinach/artichoke dip which apparently tasted more like frozen creamed spinach dip than anything else. They didn’t finish the appetizer. My meal was pretty good — certainly not the best Ahi I’ve ever had but you can’t expect much when you order seafood in Minnesota.

Redstone has a woman that apparently only walks around the foyer holding a candle floating in water on a tray. We came up with various reasons for her doing this including punishment for dropping a tray full of entrees the weekend before, attempting to look busy while doing nothing more than wandering around in 50 square feet, or just being yet another body in the foyer to make it seem like they have a lot of unnecessary staff on hand to cater to your every need.

I liked Redstone’s decor including the fresh flowers in the bathroom. What I didn’t quite understand were the two large piles of ice in the bottom of the old-school floor length urinals. I wasn’t quite sure if I was supposed to pee on the piles to help melt them or not so I used a stall instead.

On Sunday I watched the Vikings win for once and went grocery shopping. Not much else occurred until now when I wrote this pointless post.

See all the pictures from the weekend here (mobile).