Roadside Art-It's The Best

During one of our Minnesota excursions, we happened upon Franconia's Sculpture Park. A 20-acre venue where the love of art and the surrounding community have joined together to form a place of residence for artist and their giant sculptures. You can find out more by clicking on the following link:

www.franconia.org

Much to the boy's horror, I asked them to pull over and give me ten minute's. Now I could probably spend a couple hours looking and exploring, but ten minute's is all I would need to run through the fields snapping pictures, taking in the uniqueness that is only Franconia, and glisten until I was looking most un-ladylike.

Look at me I'm glisten-ing!

My male companions obliged and here are some of the sculptures that captured my heart:

"ART IS A GUARANTY OF SANITY"

Minnesota Road Trip

This post is going to read like one of those long slide shows your grandparents used to show you of their vacations-hopefully cooler. 

This was our traveling companion for our fourth of July trip to Minnesota. We call him "Taco" and he likes to lick.

This is a picture of Bjorn, Hubby, and I after we climbed 168 stairs to take in the view Stillwater, "The best little town in Minnesota!"

This is a toilet in an underground cave. Yes, I went to the bathroom in an underground cave. It was humid and yucky.

This is a fire roasted jalapeno with sea salt and a punch they call "cabin boy" at Smalley's Caribbean Barbecue and Pirate Bar. You know I like me some themed restaurants!

This is pool where our host allowed us to spent lazy afternoons teaching Taco how to surf and watch Nico repeatedly get stuck on the water slide.

This is the church where the final scene of Grumpy Old Men took place. No I'm not with the stares of the movie, just Brother Bjorn and his dad.

While there was one more adventure we took before this picture, I decided it needed a blog all it's own. So, Pops took us to see the river and gaze across to the "land off cheese" and then we ended the night with a family get together where we met more lovely people, shared stories, tried to play matchmaker to a poor girl we just met, and fell into a blissful rest that can only come from a wonderful road trip. 

I and Love and You

Several months ago, Nico bought us tickets for my most favoritest of bands-The Avett Brothers. I totally forgot about the concert with the craziness that's been surrounding us lately, so it was a nice surprise when he reminded me!  What made it even better was that he bought tickets for Rocket Car Creator and his wife. They are lovely people and the epitome of cool.

The night was sweaty-hot, but most enjoyable because it involved watching men rock their cello's, upright base's, banjos, drums, and guitars.  After this concert, I have come to the fact that my future children will totally be banjo-cello genius's. Get ready world.

There wasn't a bad seat in the house as the concert was held in an amphitheater. Blankets and pop up chairs were spread throughout the grounds and we had great seats with a full view of the stage. But true to my nature, I had to "be with the people" and slowly made my way front and center so I could get an up close and personal view.  I swear the temperature rose about 15 degrees and the kick drum pulsed so loudly through my body that I was afraid my heart was going to explode. I relished every minute of it.

Check out the following link to see them perform my favorite song:

http://youtu.be/OG35_Siz_iw