Activity ideas

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Main article: Homestay
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This is a list of activity ideas for host families wondering what to do with their visitors. Specifically, this article deals with Ikata students visiting Red Wing.

Popular activities

These are activities that Ikata students have liked in the past:

  • River City Days activities
  • practicing English conversation
  • meeting their host siblings' friends
  • hanging out with other kids their age
  • volleyball
  • basketball
  • ice skating
  • baseball
  • bowling
  • going to watch the Twins in Minneapolis
  • rafting or tubing
  • horseback riding
  • eating American food like pizza and steak
  • shopping at the Mall of America
  • target practice

Travel destinations

If you want to stretch your legs, try taking your visitor to these destinations:

  • Mall of America
  • Fort Snelling
  • Valleyfair
  • Saints baseball game
  • Lynx basketball game
  • Wisconsin Dells
  • Chanhassen Dinner Theatre
  • Xcel tour
  • Colvill Pool
  • Canoeing or tubing on the Cannon River
  • Bluff hike
  • Cannon Valley Trail bike ride
  • National Eagle Center in Wabasha
  • River Boat Cruises (depart from Levee Park and Lake City)

What to avoid

These are activities that haven't gone over well with Ikata students in the past: