After staying in Mitchell SD, we continued into Minnesota and drove to Bret and Jeri's home in Mound MN. Bret's neighbor just purchased a 1955 Chevy like the one I used to have. He took us for a ride in it and it really brought back memories. On Saturday, we drove into Minneapolis. We went to the top of the Forshay Tower, which was the tallest building in Minneapolis when Jeri was little. The view of the city from the tower was really nice. My cousin, Tom Stinson, who lives St. Paul, joined us for lunch. It was really interesting talking with him since he has been the State Economist for 21 yrs and he shared his thoughts with us about the $700B bailout proposal. In the evening we walked over to a neighbor's house near the lake for a campfire. Bret and Jeri live within a block of
Lake Minnetonka and on Sunday we took about 4 hour ride in Bret's boat around the lake and inlets to the harbors. We were hoping for fall colors but were a couple weeks early although we still got a flavor of the red colors. Bret drove us pass the mansions on the lakes and showed us his favorite boat.
As the Evan and Paige headed out to school on Monday, we started our drive back to the mountains travelling through Iowa and Nebraska. We arrived back home early afternoon on Tuesday.
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