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We returned from our vacation on October 19th.  We were cutting it close for the snow and cold that was coming to the area.  It was a lifetime of memories in a short period of time.

 Hello, South Dakota!

Almost home - the last hour was beautiful!

OUR TRIP STATS:

Stops because of road construction: 11

Cemeteries (which we prayed for the poor souls each time): 77

License plates:

Ontario, Washington, South Carolina, Connecticut, New York, South Dakota, Wyoming, Michigan, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, Alberta, Louisiana, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, Kentucky, Kansas, Oklahoma, Idaho, Missouri, Alabama, Virginia, Alaska, California, North Dakota, North Carolina, Oregon, Nebraska, Montana, New Jersey, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Hawaii, Wisconsin, Maryland

(there was a bonus that if they saw Rhode Island we would eat out - we obviously didn't see it)

Most common road kill: skunk

We couldn't have asked for a better opportunity to heal and move on.  A huge thank you to all our friends who hosted us or for making time to meet up with us on our trip.

NOW I return you to our normal scheduled life.  

HELLO FARGO!!!!

We ended our wonderful road trip with a stop in Fargo to see our friends.

The weather was great for October! We had our friends meet us at a park and we played, played, played all afternoon!

 Blase and Isaiah

twincesses?

 Joseph and Stephen

not twincesses! ha

 The real twincesses!

Pictures of the Kids in Minnesota

 The sweetest picture of the kids!

 Gianna

 Rex

 Blase

 Cormac

 A scared Brech Earl thinking he was gonna get wet.

I hope you enjoy this series of pictures as much as I did when I took them.

Yes, I laughed at the poor kid.

Brigid 

 Kiara

 Stephen

Headed out - watch out North Dakota - here we come!! 

Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center

(From a postcard)

Receiving over 1,000 ship visits each year and millions of ton of cargo makes the Port of Duluth a busy transportation center.  The city is located at the Southwestern tip of the largest freshwater lake in the world, Lake Superior.

  The Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center sits at the base of the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge.

 One of the displays in the visitor center is the Essayons engine.

 From the floor above the engine

 a model version of the Essayons

 We saw the real Edna G. in Two Harbors.

 The bridge was down for all our visit.  If we had just gotten there sooner or much later we could have seen a ship go through.  ha ha

 Stephen is in Canada again.

A display of the Edmund Fitzgerald wreck site. 

On our way home we saw the train we had taken a ride on earlier that week.

 This evening's treat was caramel apples!  YUMMY!!