Country Inn Stes Cottage Grove

... room and a kichenette. After check-in we went to the mall and had a great time.

The next morning we went to IKEA by the mall and then to the local casinos. No luck on winning but it was fun. After the casinos we started to head back to Milwaukee.

... we had to weave through the other drivers. We met Aleen for dinner at Trieu Chau, a local Vietnamese restaurant in St. Paul. I ate Bun Rieu while Susan had Bun Bo Hue and Aleen ate the vegetable soup. We made it to Hung and Lien's at 8:30 PM exhausted but ready to see what Minneapolis has to offer since this is our first time to go sightseeing here.

We will be seeing the Mall of America...

Today I traveled via e-mail from home to Kampala, Uganda. Because of the 8 hour time difference, I didn't arrive in Kampala until the next day though. Boy is that a long trip! I was so tired and went straight to bed. I got to sleep ...

I'm frantically trying to work through my 3 page list of things to do before I go. Setting up a travel blog was one of the things on my list. Hopefully this will work as a great way to share stories and photos will all our friends and family back home. This seems pretty easy so far. My next task is a little more complicated...buying another swim suit. Why did I wait until 48 hours before departure to tackle this monumental task?

Off to MOA!

Mary

Here are links to over 800 photos I took on the trip. They are in chronological order.

1st set

http://www.facebook.com/albu m.php?aid=2743654&id=13903381&l =6484cf32ac

2nd set

http://www.facebook.com/albu m.php?aid=2743677&id=13903381&l =21fa01c9dc

3rd set

http://www.facebook.com/albu m.php?aid=2743705&id=13903381&l =8604f37db0

4th set

http://www.facebook.com/albu m.php?aid=2743712&id=13903381&l =1612875889

... joyfully leaping up the steps to a milonga after we exited the taxi. She owes me!!! Maybe she could buy half of my camera. Order wine and steak!!! It is inexpensive and delicious. Dress up! When in the world do you get an opportunity to have fun and dress like you don't normally dress? Okay, I guess I am wrong. We do that at every tango event-even in Minnesota. Get to know the men and women in a salon...they might call YOU, "Sex in the ...

... are hanging three feet lower than I am, so if you don't get your feet up out of the way, you're going to hit the ground with them and they'll snap off and you'll go home in a cast." Feet up. I got that part, loud and clear. Joe went through it quickly a couple more times, then stood up and clapped. "OK. That's your training. If you're getting a video, you've got to remember to look up at the camera in freefall. Don't look down or all you'll get is a movie of the top of your head ...

Hello, all, I'm sorry that I haven't written in a terrible amount of
time, nor did I post the photos I promised I would.

BUT,
now I have gotten it together and made two albums. It's hard to try and
distill 1245 photos into 120, but I think I did ok, if you have any
questions or want to see a different photo, email me at ...

... Vikings walking around in a purple suit and looking like he had consumed one to many glasses of wine. Funny thing is, I later found out when I got back to the States, that Carl Eller had got stopped by the police on the way back from the inauguration party and was taken downtown. Noone still knows why he was there in the first place. LOL!!!

Money means trouble in this country! You need small notes to tip people, they don't understand when you use $1 dollar coins and you need coins for the phone (if you can find one), oh did I mention pennies? Well at MSP airport we needed to make a couple of phone calls to organise our taxi, but we didn't have suitable coins. I managed to find a change machine, so I changed a dollar note into quarters. This worked well so I ...