Sunday, April 29, 2007

Joy's Visit & Geocaching Frustration...

This past weekend Brandon's sister, Joy, came to visit from Oregon. This was her third time that she has been out here and we love having her! She arrived on Thursday afternoon and just left last night, Sunday. It was such a short trip and it went by so quick, but we really enjoyed having her out here. She is so sweet and she even hand carried cinnamon rolls for us from Portland!

On Thursday, Brandon took her to the Mall of America after she arrived and then she came with us to our Bible Study that we normally go to. Afterwards, we all went and saw Blades of Glory (which Brandon really enjoyed!) On Friday, I got off work at noon and so we were able to enjoy the nice weather and drove to Lake City, MN. We walked around for a bit and tried to find a geocache, but we didn't have much luck. We then drove to Red Wing, MN which is a cute little town with antique houses and hotels. The picture down below of me next to the "Uffda Shop" is for my grandma and mom...they had a lot of Norwegian things in it!

On Saturday, the weather was nice once again, so after taking a walk and eating a wonderful breakfast at Pannekoeken, we drove around looking at the Tour of Homes in Rochester. We then decided to drive southeast to a little town called Lanesboro. It was a cute town that has a lot of bike trails. Brandon and I want to go back and go biking sometime. We tried finding two more geocaches in this town and once again, no luck...bummer huh? We still had a good time enjoying the awesome weather. That night, we went out to dinner at Green Mill and sat outside. We invited a friend of ours and his sister came too. We went over the their house after dinner and played Scene It...we had a great night.


Brandon and Joy in matching colors!Joy and I at Lake CityThe Uffda ShopJoy and Brandon in the tunnel on our way to geocache

The Adventures of Geocaching:

Brandon and Joy geocachingBrandon and Nick looking hard for the cache - we were at the right spot but could never find it!
Looking for the cache at Lake City - could not find it!

All of us looking for the cache in Lanesboro - it was quite a little climb and yet we still didn't find it!

3 comments:

cassi said...

Sounds like lots of fun little trips in MN! That's always fun to have family get to come visit!

Anonymous said...

The geocache outing at least gets you out into some impressive scenery. It seems as though you had an enJOYable time.

Jen said...

What fun! The picture of you on the bench in Lake City is cute. Andrew and I actually attended a wedding there last September for one of his classmates. Such a cute little place.