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| Dave and I at the Stillwater wedding |
So it has become a bi-annual thing, our trek to to the Big Minny. Sometimes we fly, and sometimes we drive. This time we drove. We were gone for a little over 3 weeks and we packed it in (not only in the car, but the activities as well)!
We left on a Thursday afternoon and decided to push it all the way to Columbus, OH the first day. Which meant we arrived at our hotel around midnight. We stayed at the Hawthorne Suites in East Columbus due to the full kitchen and (more importantly) that my credit card points paid for it. Despite the hour of our arrival, we walked into our room and noticed there was a wood-burning fireplace so of course we had to have a fire. The hotel was a little on the old side and my attempt to bring our complimentary hot breakfast to our room was squashed. Apparently there are a lot of folks who live in the hotel who leave dirty plates in their rooms so that's why I couldn't bring our food back (despite the fact that all the rooms had full kitchens, so if people were going to dirty dishes, they could still easily do it!). I had filled up a large plate and the staff person made me throw it all away, what a waste.
That was our first experience in East Columbus. I am not sure why we thought it was a good idea to stay in that part of town again, but we did on the way back. The hotel reeked and when we were unloading our car we actually had a man hide behind our family so some guy that was chasing him couldn't 'get' him. Never again to East Columbus.
We made it to MN relatively unscathed and the first thing on the itinerary was to hit the road again to go to the cabin!! Five hours is nothing after 3 days of driving! Becky and the kids, and my mom all went up for the week and then Dave, Bob, and Paul came the following weekend. We all had a blast, ate well, and had perfect weather 70s and 80s the entire time. We picked raspberries, played a ton outside, ate fresh fish, and even dipped in the lake a couple times (definitely not too many times a year one can do that)!
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| Chilling by the lake with Grandpa |
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| Cascade Falls |
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| Cousins Stella, Luna, Nico, Lucy: after a long afternoon of running up and down the driveway, quite the workout! |
We stayed with Becky and Noe for the remainder of our visit. We hit the Como pool, Dave and I actually got a couple nights out due to a friends wedding in Stillwater, and we were able to celebrate Luna's birthday, pinatas and all!
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| The Frausto birthday tradition; I wonder how many years will she still be smiling after her parents smoosh her face in her bday cake?? |
My parents still got it!
Finally, we were able to make it to the state fair, on the very last day, but we still made it! The kids "worked" on the farm, we ate cheese curds and sweet corn covered corndogs; we had fried sunnies with lingonberry sauce and scotch eggs; we had pulled turkey sandwiches and huge dill pickles. And we bought the big bucket of Sweet Marthas chocolate chip cookies, yum.
Working with the girls on the farm, Luna eating a scotch egg, and the only thing left to do for Stella was chillax for a couple hours in the wagon!
We made it to MN relatively unscathed and the first thing on the itinerary was to hit the road again to go to the cabin!! Five hours is nothing after 3 days of driving! Becky and the kids, and my mom all went up for the week and then Dave, Bob, and Paul came the following weekend. We all had a blast, ate well, and had perfect weather 70s and 80s the entire time. We picked raspberries, played a ton outside, ate fresh fish, and even dipped in the lake a couple times (definitely not too many times a year one can do that)!
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