Minnehaha Park

 With the forecast for the rest of the week looking decidedly dodgy, I decided to go down for a walk in the Minnehaha Park this afternoon, and perhaps look to visit the Mall of America later in the week if it's wet.

I noted that there was a restaurant at the metro stop just outside the park, so I had lunch there before crossing over the main road into the park itself.

I took quite a few pictures of places throughout the park.

 The trees are starting to turn here.  Many of them are showing a lot of yellow and some a big of red too, like this one.

 The river winds its way through the park, with lots of boulders that have been eroded from the waterfalls.

The rocks by the side are deliberately put there for provide somewhere to sit and watch the water flowing past though.  There were a surprising number of people there, just walking their dogs or themselves.

The waterfall is the centrepiece of the park.  Although the muddy path up to the side of the waterfall is gated off with 'Do not enter' signs on it, some people still forced their way past it and stood on the rocks in front of the falls.  I had to wait several minutes for one young couple to finish taking photos of each other there.

It was a warm day and I got quite hot walking about.  I did the small circuit of the park, which took a couple of hours, and then got the metro train back to the hotel, so I could change ready to go to this evening's game.