Holiday Inn Burnsville, Mn

... 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...

... a mosquito net because it was the rainy season and there were so many mosquitoes. Since mosquitoes carry malaria, it's best to try to stay safe from them. Sleeping under a mosquito net is fun though, it is a lot like camping!

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

... great photo's taken by Barb. Jonny is the first grand-baby of Brian and Marla. Their oldest son, Doug and his wife Mirinda live in Laos and are in the States for the summer. We have really enjoyed spending this limited time with all of them and to add frosting to this, Barb's mom and dad, Eldon and Irene flew in from Florida to be with all of us. We will see them again in Florida after we finish our fourth corner in Key West in about ...

I had a very early wake up call. Why, you say? Because today I am going to Canada!!!! Watch out men! I am flying out from Atlanta to Minneapolis/St. Paul to meet up with Judith Mendez. Mendez? Do you know her.. you should. One of the most fabulous women I know. We met about 3 years ago working together out at St. Francis Medical Center out in Oahu. We have kept in touch for the past ...

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!!!

... to some nice spots around the world. When we are almost arrived to our final destination, we stop at Minneapolis International Airport, where some of the passengers get off, and somebody else get on; local Police in plain clothes - and with a dog - that start checking IDs and asking questions about where are we from, where we are going, etc, etc....you know, the usual lot of ******** to show they are doing their job, but knot really if you ...