Well, we’ve been back a few days now, I just haven’t taken the time
to write an update. The trip to St Paul went pretty smoothly, except
for when we actually got there and the directions I had for the hotel
were wrong. I hadn’t noticed that they went just to the street, rather
than the hotel itself, and the street was too long to figure out which
way to go. We managed to find it anyway, after driving around and
following the directions that we had to the place that the graduation
was, so it wasn’t too big a deal.
St Paul is pretty nice. Where we were was very clean and well kept.
Apparently in the last couple years they have done major work to redo
downtown and just finished so we were seeing it very freshly done. It’s
a little weird because there are Peanut’s characters all over the place
as statues in front of buildings and in parks. Charles Shultz was born
in St Paul, and the Mall of America has Camp Snoopy in it, which is a
little amusement park type place. We didn’t have time to go to any of
the local attractions because we were only there for 2 nights and the
one day we were there was taken up with the graduation. That’s ok
though, except for the mall there isn’t much to do. Where we were
downtown has pretty much nothing in it except business stuff. We
couldn’t find anywhere at all to eat, except in the hotel restaraunt.
There was also a cafeteria style place down the street that had italian
food and a couple other things, but nothing that interested us at all.
The place in the hotel was nice though. The food was good, and the
price was ok. It’s an irish pub called The Liffey. I got a sandwhich
both times we ate there, and it came with a ton of big french fries, so
that was good. We also got dessert both nights, which was also good.
The trip there and back was uneventful. We stayed at two different
Days Inns, which were both right off the highway and easy to find. We
got Domino’s Pizza both nights we stayed in Syracuse, NY, and when we
were in Elkhart, IN, we went to a Chinese buffet that was right next to
the hotel on the way there, and went to an all-night restaurant on the
way back. It was the only thing open by the time we got there. It was
really good though, we both got burgers and it came with soup to start
with, which was good, and a big bowl of crackers to go with it. We got
mozzarella sticks for an appatizer because we were really hungry by
then, but then could only eat half the burger. The burgers also came
with giant potato wedges with bacon and cheese on them. The chinese
buffet was pretty standard, but was good, and inexpensive. The most
surprising thing was that they had serve yourself pork tenderloin, and
whole turkey, and roast, and ham.
In othe rnews, Sabrina picked some of my radishes for me, and they
seem to be doing ok. Some of them were scrawny, but others grew really
well. There are alot of big leaves on the mesclin mix too, but not
really anything to harvest yet. The cucumbers may or may not be doing
ok, the plant is going, but not very much. I’m not holding my breath
for it.