Catrina's Best of the Midwest Tour Part 1

The blog's been fairly silent for a while because Adriana and Burkhard came to visit for a couple of weeks, so we were all on vacation in Minnesota and the greater Upper Midwest together. Apparently if this preaching gig ever gives out, I could make a pretty decent living as a tour guide. Here's a recap of some of the fun we had:


Hiking along the St. Croix River at Interstate Park



The Stone Arch Bridge and the St. Anthony Falls history loop along the Mississippi River

(the sun was in a bad spot for pictures at the time we were there, so this photo is actually from a couple years ago)




A Pint at Brit's, on the roof on a beautiful evening, watching the lawn bowlers


The next day we took a drive to look at all the old fancy houses on Summit Avenue, and thought we would just pop in to see the inside of the St. Paul Cathedral. A word to the wise: Saturday is not a good day to try this. We almost crashed a wedding, and when we went back a few hours later, almost crashed another!

Oh well, at least it was a gorgeous day to be on top of the State Capitol:





We followed that up with lunch at Cosetta's (no picture here, you just have to imagine the yumminess or click on the link).

We then made our way over to Minneapolis, where we were able to see the inside of Central Lutheran (no weddings because they were doing so much with the Churchwide Assembly), which had a lovely exhibit of He Qi's artwork. And then we strolled and shopped along Nicollet Mall before heading back to the 'burbs to meet some friends for dinner at Betty's Pies (5 layer chocolate mint pie. . .need I say more?).

More of Adri a Burki's great American adventure to come. Stay tuned. . .