Pawnee City Tourists

We toured the big city, home of Dan Whitney (Larry the Cable Guy). Had a great time at the PEDAL CLINIC, which is a museum, exibit of all kinds of pedal cars, trucks, trains and other toys. It was worth the time.

Also toured Schilling Ridge Winery and Microbrewery, home of Git-R-Done beer! We had to buy some beer, as well as Hot Flash Red and Women Gone Wine!

Back to Nebraska City!

Here we are again in NE City. Took some time and traveled to KC for some appointments and to visit with friends.

The found hearing aid was finally sent to us, and taken to KC for testing. All was well, and they took the new one back and gave us a refund!!!!! Yeah.
Had a great time with friends at our favorite Friday place, Fuel Bar and Grill ($1.00 burgers on Fridays).

Babies!!!!

On July 29th, the Colton family added two new members: Fayth Ryan, and Gracie Leigh!!! Yeah, the first girls in this generation! Proud parents are Clint and Melanie.

St. Paul, MN

Today (july 26th) we toured the MN capital building in St. Paul. We were able to see the Supreme Court room as well as the House and Senate rooms. This capital is our second, and we are on our way to tour all 50 of them.

We did not tour St. Paul Cathedral, but we will have to do that at another time. We were told that all of the different cultures that settled here were able to decorate a nave with their traditional religious items.

We did eat at Mickey's Dining Car, a local dive.

We also did tour Grand Street, and had an ice cream at the Grand Creamery (highly recommended).

Minneapolis

We are currently in Savage, MN at the Town & Country Campground.

Have taken the train into Minneapolis to see if we could get a ticket to the Twins, but at $100 per ticket, we decided that we were not that big of fans, so took it easy and walked around gawking at the crowd.

Took a drive into St. Paul on Saturday to watch the Flugtag event, which is a bunch of nuts who have built various "crafts" that they hope will fly off of a 30 foot tower into the Mississippi River. We did see the record breaking 207 foot "flight" of Major Trouble and the Dirty Dixies. Also a record breaking crowd of 90K in a park built for 40K.

Lincoln, NE

Spent a couple of days back in Lincoln to celebrate the 50th birthday of Cathy's brother Bob. Had a great time and had lots of company out to the RV home. I didn't know so many people could fit in there at one time!

Chicago on another day

We found a train station one day and took a trip into Chicago proper. It took all day! Parked the behemoth truck in the last row of the 3 block parking lot, hiked up the the parking fee kiosks to pay, took a trip under the tracks to the station to buy tickets, and then waited 1.5 hours for our train to appear (on the otherside of the tracks, naturally). The trip took over an hour to get to Union Station in downtown Chicago, and then we had to find the bus to the Navy Pier. Finally got to our destination, just in time for...lunch at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. Food was excellent. It was HOT that day, so spent most of the time looking at the display of stained glass windows and doors. Got home late after taking the express train home.