Wednesday was the 4th of July.
It was a busy day for me. Danielle, Bradley, Mom and Anna came up for my
concert. The day was so hot. Danielle,
Bradley, Eric and I tried out the Shakopee Sand Adventure pool. I’m kind of embarrassed to admit it but, we
had never been there before. 8 years in
Shakopee and we finally went to the pool.
It was so nice. There is a big
slide, 3 smaller slides and a diving board.
It wasn’t too busy considering it was 100 degrees outside and a holiday.
We spent a couple hours there before we had to
get back to the house to get ready for the picnic and concert. Greg and Celeste
came over to pick up our extra people and we meet up at Round Lake Park in Eden
Prairie. It was still around 100 degrees at 5:30. We had a nice picnic and listened to the Jazz
Band. After them, we got to play. I was sweating bullets and drank 32 ounces of
ice cold water. I was so happy to be
done and back in the air conditioning.
Danielle and Bradley left and Mom and Anna spent the night. We were too tired or hot to go out to see
fireworks so we watched them on TV. I’m
getting old.
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| Winniwissa Falls, Pipestone National Monument, Pipestone, MN |
Thursday we went to for a mini vacation to Pipestone National Monument
in southwestern Minnesota. It was very interesting. American Indians have quarried the red
pipestone found at the site. These grounds are sacred to many people because
the pipestone quarried here is carved into pipes used for prayer. Many believe
that the pipe's smoke carries one's prayer to the Great Spirit. The traditions
of quarrying and pipemaking continue there today. We did the 3/4 mile hike to the quarry, water fall and
other sites. It was very cool…but very
hot. We stopped at a few of the state parks as well. We were going to camp at Split Rock
Creek State Park near the site but it was too hot and humid…we would have been
miserable. We are becoming very
spoiled. So instead we drove to a hotel. We had a
nice meal for dinner and played some mini golf.
I was victorious!!! I beat Eric by 5.
Yesterday we slowly made our way to Flandrau State Park in New
Ulm. For a while we were by
ourselves. We had some lunch at Pizza
Ranch (yum) and made 3 trips to Target.
When we go camping, especially the first time of the summer, we always
forget things. Speaking of being
spoiled, we bought a queen size double air mattress. It is so comfy! We went to the park and waited for the
others. Greg, Celeste and Evelyn finally
got there after their rough start to the day. Evelyn fell down the steps and
had to have two staples put into her head.
She didn’t seem fazed by it. DJ
and kids showed up next. We went to the
really nice sand bottom pool. Eric
bought some toys for the pool so we all had a blast. Eventually Danielle and Bradley showed
up. We swam until 8pm. After that we had
a campfire and food. S’mores are so
good. It was still hot. When we finally put the fire out at 10pm it was
still in the 90s I think. It was
miserable falling asleep. I eventually
fell asleep, the mattress helped.
I woke up at 3am to the storm shower.
The nice thing about the storms is it really cooled down outside that I
was able to get back to sleep. But I was awakened again at 6am to a massive
storm with thunder, lightning and down pouring rain. It was quite the storm. I looked at the map
on my phone and the only place in the state that had storms was by New
Ulm. Go Figure!
We packed up our site after the rain went to Perkins for a late
breakfast and then came home. We did
nothing today but relax. It is so nice
to be home and being in our own bed again tonight.
It was a very nice couple of days, even if it was sweltering.
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