Minnesota Day #1

This morning I woke up to a picture perfect sunny day (despite MSU’s depressing loss to Notre Dame last night, but I won’t talk about that, it’s too sad). I had some delicious waffles to start the day. Then Mark, Linda, Anna, her friend Chelsea and I all went for a drive to the St. Croix river at Taylors Falls. One side of the falls is Minnesota and the other side is Wisconsin. Absolutely gorgeous day like I said. There were rock climbers, guys with remote control cars, kids climbing on the rocks and even several artists either drawing or painting.

From there we went to pick up Emily at the local apple orchard, right across from where former governor Jesse Ventura lives. What a great apple orchard. Hundreds of people were waiting in line just to get some fresh baked goods.

From there we headed to the Mall of America. Woohoo! I had to go to the Apple store for a problem that my Macbook is having. Grr. It’s a small world. One of the girls working at the checkout was from Calumet (about 40 minutes north of my hometown of Baraga). An even smaller connection is the family I’m staying with was looking at property in the same place where the Calumet girl’s dad has property… or something like that. It’s always great to meet fellow yoopers. It’ll be less and less as the trip goes on.

Also while at the Mall of America I went on a few rides with Anna and Chelsea who are both twelve. It was a fun time! I was at the Mall of America once with my family when I was about that age.

Afterwards we drove by the gorgeous capitol building and grabbed some great Mexican food and called it a night. There’s more too come soon of this great family I’m staying with and some other photos and what not. Stay posted!