Happy mother's day to all the mothers who are reading this. This is first mother's day in 30 years that I am not with any of the kids. It feels strange but also says that they are all independent and grown up and I should be happy that I have done my job well. I am proud of all of them. But, I miss them.
This is Tent Caterpillar. Jim showed it to us last night. It is very destructive. He is going to burn it tomorrow.We had a wonderful farm fresh breakfast early in the morning and then we said, adios to our good friends, hosts and their palace and drove west through the 10,000 lakes, Ethanol plants, farms with silos and wind mills. Our first stop was Cabela's store where Jagdish treated me and himself with coverall sun glasses. The store is amazing. Huge and has all sorts of stuffed animals ( I was told they are all real).
Outside Cabela's : JAgdish with his Coverall glasses
Minnesota is dotted with Ethanol plants and windmills.
We stopped at Pipe Stone National Monument. It turned out to be a real Gem. Took us many small roads to get there but once there we were quite amazed. It is very small but worth the stop. It is a scared sight for native Americans. Many tribes have been coming here to quarry the pipe stone that is used for making the scared pipes used for religious ceremonies. Even today , they only Native Americans are allowed to dig here and they use only old fashioned tools which takes them many years to get the rock with is buried under the over 70 feet of Quartz.
All the red stone is the Pipe Stone and the creek is very scenic.We are in South Dakota at Mitchell, the home of Corn Palace. We just got here so have not seen the Corn Palace yet. Will report on it tomorrow.
Good night and happy mother's day and if you are not a mother: be nice to the mother you know, it is not easy to be a mom ( but is very rewarding :)
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its' so hard to be a daughter. but very rewarding too!
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love you!
also, remember we saw that gross tent caterpillar in glacer national park. we took pics of it there too :)
ReplyDeleteVery funny :) But , you are doing a great job of being a daughter :0
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