Northern Minnesota Connection
I flew into Minneapolis Tuesday evening and Jody was there to pick me up at baggage. Well, almost. She was waiting at American Airlines pick up and I was waiting at American Airlines pick up. Hmmmm?!? We even confirmed via cell phone that we both were at the “right” location, but of course, neither one of us saw each other. Turns out she was directly above me at drop off, and I was down below at baggage claim. Once we got that sorted out we were off to the cabin!
We almost ran out of gas around midnight near Hackensack. We had literally talked our way up the highway!! Suprise suprise…. Luckily Jody noticed and even more luckily, we found a gas station that took credit cards!! We spent the night in Walker because neither one of us were thrilled with heading into the cabin after midnight.
Zac and Bun had their spare car ready for me to borrow Wednesday morning. After a nice chat with them Jody headed back to Mpls, and I headed into Bemidji to take Mom out for her first pedicure! Another first!
I spent the night with Mom at her apartment and headed out the next morning to the cabin where Bill and Erin were waiting. (They had arrived the night before.) Drat! It was a beautiful afternoon so we jumped on the bikes and headed to Stoney Point for some ice cream. Cute couple!
Bill and Erin were nice and continued to humored my love of biking. We got up the next morning and took a short jont down to the south campground. On the way back we came across a mama badger and her two babies as they attempted to cross the bike trail. Mama headed back into the woods, but these to younsters had attitute, and refused to leave the trail’s edge and told us so in a few growls and snarls!
We talked mom into coming to the cabin Friday for a barbecue and celebrate Bunny’s upcoming birthday. We put Mom in charge of husking that corn!
Bunny brought over the beautiful scrapbook we all put together for her suprise 60th birthday party last April. Everyone did such a great job!
We fixed a mock tort cake for the birthday, but unfortunately, Bunny wasn’t able to eat her own cake. Too many unhealthy additives. Oh well, she enjoyed the fresh strawberries and the rest of us had totally unhealthy cake!
Zac and Bun gave me a bag FULL of a nice assortment of books for my birthday. I’ve already jumped right into a selection of folktales from around the word compiled by Jane Yolen, one of my favorite children’s authors. Zac burned me some beautiful music. DOUBLE SCORE! Oh, and I can’t forget my unique “Bunny Card”!
The other big excitement was Z & B’s new flashy black Honda. It’s supposed to get up to 42 m.p.g. They’re a little concerned about the color, but are excited about the ipod capable of plugging into the stereo sysytem and the amount or room in the back.
It was wonderful having time with Mom, Zac & Bun, Bill & Erin. What a nice start to my 2 week vacation south!!
