Minnesota nice

        Us at the falls,  what a great place!

Minnesota Nice

 

 After North Dakota we reentered civilization as we know it, staying at the Detroit Lakes RV camp. 

 Very nice, (especially after N.D.) It had a small lake with paddle-boats, lots of frogs and a cornfield that you could pick all you wanted.

 We were invited by our dear friends Joan and Dean Elwell to come to the Minneapolis area for a visit, so south we headed.

 We are so lucky to have such great friends, Joan and Dean and their (above average, of course) kids, Aiden and Katie made us right at home with a super-cool parking spot in their backyard.

 Once settled in with a heartfelt welcome, they toured us around the Minneapolis and St. Paul area for four days.

 What a GREAT place, there are museums, The Minnesota Institute of the Arts, The St Paul Landmark building to name two that we visited (along with others)

 Huge theaters like the Guthrie, where we sipped drinks in the ubermodern bar on the seventh floor.

 Wonderful restaurants like Nye's all oozing tons-o-history

 We literally ate and drank ourselves silly

 Joan is the manager of the Lakeshore Players theater so she treated us to a performance there, "Axel and his dog". We loved it.

 Then there were farmer's markets, apple farms, and more sightseeing.

 And we enjoyed killer martinis made with Prairie Vodka, a local distilled organic corn juice that when chilled is ambrosia.

 We LOVED Minnesota!

 Except for the roads, worst we have encountered yet, maybe it was our route, but very rough.

 Never did meet Al Franken, oh well, can't have everything, even in Minnesota.