We took Minneaplis by surprise!

Wednesday, Thursday & Friday of last week was pretty much uneventful with Joel up in Superior, WI working. With Jonathan & I having a emotional day with Daniel leaving, we decided to meet Joel at Casa Mexicana in Rice Lake for some dinner. While at dinner Jonathan asked to go back to Mpls on Saturday. Once we got home, Joel & I made hotel reservations and the plan was in motion.

We took off around 11:30am & dropped Jonathan off at Derrick's for an all niter gaming session at 1:30 pm. We made a stops at SSP dog park, Famous Footwear, Wal*Mart, Petco & Sprint then made out way over to visit Rita. Joel had loaded the netbook with all 506 pictures from the grad party/3rd annual to share with her. Couple hours later we left for our next destination of visiting with John Young in his new room at the nursing home. Last month he was moved from the the 2nd floor which was the Alzheimer's floor with no privileges (because it was the only floor that had an available room) to the 3rd floor with lots of privileges. He now is able to come & go as he pleases throughout the grounds. The nursing home has a beautiful flower garden with a waterfall and nice seating for visiting, but unfortunately......it was raining. Imagine that!

Once we left John's we realized we didn't have a dinner date scheduled with any of our friends because everyone was busy. That is the one sucky part of a impromptu visit, everyone isn't just sitting around for you to come into town to have dinner......LOL. So we had a nice dinner for 2. We stopped off at the liquor store to pick up some beer for Joel & a bottle of wine to bring to Sheldon's house. Then off to check into the hotel and let Jack & Lilly run around the room while waiting for Sheldon to complete his prior obligations. There was a change in plans and he was able to have Shea overnight......so we were unable to go see his new house. Maybe next time?

Sunday we awoke to more rain....... Got cleaned up and headed out to go pickup Jonathan. Next stop was Grandma Waage's house to pick her up for some breakfast. After visiting we needed to head out for home to start getting Joel ready to go to Superior/Duluth once again. Once home, we decided to take a cocktail cruise over to Pam & Steve's to drop off a hops plant that we had picked up while we were in Mpls. So we hung out & visited for a couple hours before deciding we best get our butt's home.

This week appears to be another quiet one with Joel out of town until Wednesday evening. The upcoming weekend has nobody scheduled up, so unless we get the last minute call to come up.........it's just us and hopefully a trip or two to the island.

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