Day One - Minnesota Trip

Day One (postdated) was a day of travels. We started out at 7:20 a.m. leaving home. About 3 hours later we arrived at Roxie and Doug’s. We were just there 2 weeks ago. It’s a little funny how patterns of seeing people tends to be either feast of famine. You know, how you don’t see someone for a year, and then the next month you see them repeatedly? Strange how that happens. We were just stopping there to drop off our mouse, Alice. Someone had to take care of her for the week and they didn’t mind. We stayed for about 1 hour to run the dogs around and also steal some yummies out of their garden! Carrots and an onion, and a large jar of freshly pressed apple cider. Delish!

We set off for the rest of our ride, about 4 hours or so to our final destination. Pillager, MN. Prior to this trip, we had never heard of it, but it seemed like a nice place to go so we booked a vacation rental for a week during our anniversary and Tim’s birthday. The drive seemed long…and a bit frustrating. The road we were on was a highway with stop lights. Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, but they’d get you going up to 60mph for about 3 miles and then there would be stoplights. Probably not very good for the gas mileage. We arrived finally to our home for the week, a small stucco home on 40 acres.

During the ride up, the tree colors seemed to be transforming from greens to reds, oranges and yellows right before our eyes. It was very beautiful most of the time except where there where patches of conifers or what looked to be some sort of oak tree that was neither green nor leafless, but some mundane shade of tan/brown. Later in the day the rain came in. Since we were tired from traveling all day, we went to the grocery store to stock up (I pre-planned some meals) and just decided on a low effort meal for the evening. Pizza. When we arrived back we ate and got comfortable on the couch with a movie. Tim fell asleep around 8:30. I stayed up and watched the movie (“88 Minutes”, it was horrible). I was a bit restless so I stayed up and read for a while. My goal is to finish this book and start and possibly finish another by the end of our vacation. This book has about 300 more pages, so to start and finish another after this may be a bit lofty goal. We’ll see. By 11, the bed was too comfortable so off to sleep I went. –L