Minneapolis Days Inn Univ Of Minn

We arrived mid afternoon in Bloomington. We passed the Mall to go register at our hotel. We stayed at Staybridge Suites just west of the Mall. It is a super nice place and they offer a full breakfast in the morning. Also every room is a suite with a ...

... 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!

... there is something very special about the tango in Buenos Aires. The milongueros (definition below) are incredibly passionate as they dance. Dancing tango feels like nothing else. When I dance I don't have a care or worry--only passion and peace. It has changed my life forever!

Below are some pictures from my friends in the tango community in the Minneapolis area.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States jalswa

... have chosen to withhold some key pieces of information until only recently despite my prodding with a few emails. At least now I have a firm** idea of wh**e I actually have to go and wh**e I will sleep at night once I show up on the KNUST campus. Much bett** than the previous "Hey, I'm h**e! Um...now what?" plan. P**haps, as an event co-coordinator by trade, my ideas about attendee communication diff** slightly. I still haven't received ...

... back memories of that visit and the friendship. Tomorrow morning I will leave here early in the morning and go east through Minneapolis-St. Paul to the border with Wisconsin. Then I will travel on a scenic by-way south on the east side of the Mississippi River until I cross over into Iowa and then pick up the Lincoln Highway again to go west toward home. I sure hope that my two little trees don't get taken away from me at some border crossing!

... and did a walking tour of the town area. It was Saturday and there were lots of families shopping,eating and visiting the market square. The market had lots of fresh fruits and vegetables; they are known for white asparagus and they looked like nice stalks. Trier was founded in 16 BC under Augustus and today has the same population during the Roman Era, approximately 100,000 residents. We saw the Roman Baths, Roman Ampitheatre and Porta Nigra Gate. The Porta Nigra Gate (Latin ...

... Mom needed olives for the New Year's Day party so that was next on our list of things to do-check.There was also coffee with Leah and that was fun as I got to see Tajah and catch up with her. Part of the rest of the afternoon was spent with family before getting a last minute call from a friend of Kia's that had WILD tickets for that night.  The family got sacked and off to St. Paul we went to see a hockey game ...

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!!!