Green Bay to Minneapolis

So after a few days of bad wifi and sheer exhaustion, I will admit that keeping up with a blog has been quite a difficult experience.  I will promise to go back and fill you in on how I got to Shakopee, Minnesota, but for now, I'm just covering today. Also, I will be camping the next two nights, so ya'll just need to be patient. There are no guarantees over plugs and wifi.  I may just write the entries out by hand.

Also glad that I'm not camping tonight. Right around midnight, we're supposed to get heavy thunderstorm and possible ping pong ball sized hail.  Seriously. Hail.   I think I already hear the thunder. Though could be traffic.  This Valu Inn is missing more than the e. It's comfy, clean, but checking in through bullet proof glass always makes me leery. I must say that I felt better when I looked out the front window of my room and saw two Minis parked right next to mine.  Safety in numbers.

This morning started out with a pancake breakfast with the seriously mad flippers.  They had these huge griddles that made a few dozen at a time, and then the guys flipped them at the more adventurous ones and caught them on the plate.  There was a huge field in the back of the fairgrounds, so we grabbed the chucker and Minerva went wild, chasing her balls across the wide field. A little girl asked if she could chuck them, and it was quite funny to watch her try to get the balls to release from the chucker. Minerva didn't seem to care.  She'd already worn herself out and was too distracted to play with her old buddy Ruby.

Okay. Yeah, that's definitely thunder, and lots of it.

After leaving the fairgrounds, I drove the mile or so back to the hotel and dropped Yeu-Fann off for a sad goodbye. 16 days on the road and we were still sad to depart.  That bodes well.

Now that I had the car to myself, I turned off the AC, rolled down the window and blasted Sirius Bluegrass.  The drive was a pretty one through the Wisconsin countryside and I managed to hit several quilt shops, including The Burlington Hotel and Quilt Shop... also a bar.  Seriously. Sounds like a total quilt retreat waiting to happen.

An hour early for the evening event, I found a park that was supposed to have a dog park in it as well, but after a circle around, I didn't find one, so I watched people play Pokemon Go and played some Ingress, pretending to be one of the cool kids.

The evening event was a vast improvement over last night's tiny fiasco.  There were food stations everywhere, and a ton of food on a stick. I enjoyed the meatloaf on a stick and the chocolate drizzled bacon on a stick. I had to leave poor Minerva chained up outside, because they were apparently checking the service dog's paperwork.  That's when I discovered those two yellow labs are "service dogs."  Something stinks, methinks.