Guiness Book of FLAPJACKS!

Valentine's Day...February 14th, 2009...

What better way to spend your Valentine's Day than waiting in line at the FARGODOME (which, for you non-MN/ND natives is the largest building in the area where we host concerts and football games - GO BISON!) for PANCAKES!!? There is a local group called Kilwanis (spelling?) who do this pancake feed every year and LAST year, got into the Guiness Book of World Records for the number of pancakes served in one day. So, THIS year, they decided to have it on Valentine's Day and serve at the DOME to see if they could BEAT their record...long story short: we went around 10:00 am (they served from 7am-7pm), waited in line for an HOUR and then STUFFED our faces with FRESHLY made flapjacks (I like to say that word) and sausage (which I HATE, but Chad and the kids REALLY like!).

Here we are waiting in line~it's a good thing the kids weren't STARVING upon arrival!!

Here, I just raised my camera in the air and took a picture, it was MAYBE 1/10th of the people that were there WHEN WE WERE THERE!

Parker got his pancakes first...he LOVES pancakes!!

This is one of the 8 (or so) stations that were set up CONTINUOUSLY making the flapjacks!

Savannah enjoying her meal!

Aiden wouldn't even put down his fork for a picture! The cakes were still WARM!

The guy that was going around passing out coffee offered to take a pic with "mom" in it! That's the friendliness we are used to in the Midwest!!

We even found Grandma Pam and Emmett!! Actually...they found US!
THEN...as if FLAPJACKS weren't enough...we got to experience the largest grouping of those blow-up toy/carnivals around!! The kids had a BLAST and there were NO LINES! PERFECT!

Parker log-rolling down the large slide

This was some sort of racing thing...

I LOVE this picture!! Boys from a local college football team were in charge of the games and helping out with the pancake making!! Good job guys!! You know, I never DID find out if the record was broken this lovely Valentine's Day...oh well, whether or not...we had a GREAT time!