Category Archives: My Family

2nd MN Trip ~Part 1

We ended up going back up to Minnesota for a funeral.

Minnesota in the fall is pretty amazing.

If anything will make you never want to leave Minnesota it is their fall.

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We stopped at the Desota National Wildlife Refuge on our way up to see the Steamboat Exhibit.

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The Steamboat is still under the water at this pond.

They do have a really cool exhibit on what steamboats carried.

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At Minnesota we went to an event called “Leaf Days” at Maplewood State Park.

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I accidentally took all my pics in jpeg instead of RAW. Maybe that means nothing to you.

I never realized how much of a camera snob I had become until I realized I did not have RAW images just JPEG.

HA!

 

Spending the weekend with Pumpkins and Arrows

On our way to a pumpkin patch we stumbled upon a small Medieval Faire!

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After we checked it out for a little bit, we headed to the pumpkin patch.

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My kids love petting and feeding them all!

They even had a porcupine this year!

They had to have a sign warning that the porcupine bites.

Who tries to pet a porcupine?

People are odd.