June 8, 2007

A Short Family Vacation

On June 4th, our family left for a short 4 day vacation to northern Minnesota. It was cut even shorter by constant rain and stormy weather on the 6th.

We took the trip, along with my parents and Debbie's parents, to Duluth. On the way up there, Deb's parent's boat trailer had a blow-out, and blew the tire right off of the trailer, taking the entire wheel bearing with it. We found the tire, with the bearing still in it in the ditch about 3 blocks back. Everything was calm until we started finding woodtick after woodtick on us. All in all, about 20 ticks, from only 3 minutes in the long grass.

On Tuesday we launched the boat into Duluth Harbor and rode around the harbor for a few hours. Duluth is a beautiful city, built on the side of a gorgeous hill. It also has the famous Duluth lift bridge.



We then headed to Tower, Minnesota, and camped there. On Wednesday we visited the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota. It was very informative, and we had the opportunity to view some wolves up close through the glass.

Due to the rains, we strted back to Mora Wednesday afternoon. It was a short vacation, but a really fun one. And, it is one of the first vacations I've taken that wasn't a working vacation. All play this time.

Jim, Lynn, Don, Deanna, Debbie, Dale, Deanna, Dean

And now, back to work...

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