Border Crossing, Martians and Muskies!

Below are the first set of images from my trip to Minnesota. The captions will add a little more description of what I've been doing while here in the "City of Lakes."

This sign lets you know that the "land of 10,000 lakes" welcomes you. They don't mess around in Minnesota!

Andy shows you the wonderful trail that started our border crossing journey along the St. Croix river. For a split second, we were in Wisconsin but we didn't want to overstay our welcome. (Their welcome sign sucked compared to Minnesota's.)

The happy hikers. After one hike, we were invited into the Hikers Club! (OK not reallly)
Look how excited we are!

What a view of the St. Croix river!

It's not a typo...Not Chicago but, in fact, ChiSago! Totally a Minnesotian word.

Ok, these pictures are amazing! We found some random sculture field full of the most random things you have ever seen. Andy is admiring one of the weirdest things I have seen in my life. I just called them the Martians.

Apparrently the Martians were friendly because the let me hold their hand.

Look how lifelike their faces were. Just made the whole thing that much freakier.

Ok...Super Random. An old shack raised above ground by very strong string. Look at the next pic to see inside.

How amazing is that cat's cradle!

Now we are onto the last part of our two day adventure; Muskie Fishing. This was so interesting to me because I had never caught anything bigger than a catfish before so it was quite amazing to see how big it really was. That fish is 48 inches long, my friend, and I netted it!

And yes, we release her back into the wild!

Here Andy will show you a little figure 8 in the water, then cast a beautiful cast!

They may not have the beach at sunset, but the lake at sunset it so beautiful. It was probably in the mid to low 50s while we were out there and I, the Southern California girl, survived!

This was last weekend at an early Halloween party. I was on a low budget and used stuff in my closet for a costume...hence Cowgirl. Pete was a very proud Abraham Lincoln.

That was my last week. Hope you guys are all doing good. I will be back in town soon!