Humpback/sticks/squiggly lines, giants, blue animals, and LOTS of Mosquitoes

The month of June found Carrie, Claire and I on a weekend adventure to the headwaters of the Mississippi River as well as Bemidji for the Paul Bunyan stuff. Don't let us fool you with our posts. It may seem like we (meaning me) live docile, boring lives, but really they are lives full of excitement and intrigue with a splash of Lyme Disease.

On our way up to Itasca, we found ourselves in the small town of Wadena for dinner. They (Boondock Cafe) seated us even though they were supposed to close in 15 min. We offered to leave and they said we could stay and eat. Then they proceeded to bad mouth us in the back the WHOLE time. We set a record for downing our Walleye dinners and were NOT the last ones out of the restaurant. I'm pretty sure we might have been cursing Wadena as we left town and somehow the town was hit by a tornado a few weeks later.... oops...

Night hiking... more like walking or strolling in MN... around Lake Itasca

Lake Itasca in the morning

Headwaters of the Mississippi (humpback, stick, squiggly line, squiggly line, stick, squiggly line.... you get the picture). Got to love the State/National Park/Forest Service signs in brown and gold.

Crossing the headwaters of the MR

Hanging out on the bridge across the MR that I almost fell off of playing around.

Claire and her mosquitoes. You can see the little buggers if you look closely. We each had our own skeeter fan club. The 99% DEET kept us from a majority of the bites here but didn't stop them from following us EVERYWHERE. And, it didn't stop Claire's tick friend from biting her and giving her Lyme Disease.

For some reason I am fascinated with the weird fungus that grown in N Minnesota.

Me and my new boyfriend, Paul. AND our pet, babe. I bet I can make bank if I can get Babe into a tent at a state fair and charge $ for unsuspecting people to see a blue ox.