We picked up our daughter Hannah in Minneapolis from San Francisco before arriving in Fargo. We had time for some tourist activities ... we went to at Fargo-Moorland Redhawks baseball game vs. the Souix Falls Pheasants ... a spirited game (maybe because of the large volume of fermented beverage) with a sell out crowd of 4000. Also, a boat trip up the Red River (the Red River of the north that flows to Winnipeg ... see below. We went to Hyemkomst Center ... a replica of a viking dragon ship built from scratch (cut down the trees) by Robert Asp, a middle school teacher and later guidance counselor and sailed to Norway by members of his family ... a great story!
http://www.hcscconline.org/secondarypages/hjemkomstship.html
http://www.hjemkomstcenter.com/
We went to an old theater for a movie, saw and took picts of the chipper from the movie Fargo, knoephla soup at Kroll's Diner (www.sitdownandeat.com/), and more.
On our way home, we stopped by our oldest daughter and her husband's house for the weekend in Champaign, IL. Lots of watching the Olympics, saw the new Batman movie, good food ... and a walk on the restored prairie (compass plant flowers below). Then, on home to get ready for school.
For those interested in the Red River and Lake Agassiz ...
(The Red River flows across the flat lakebed of the ancient glacial Lake Agassiz, an enormous glacial lake created at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation from meltwaters of the Laurentide ice sheet. As this continental glacier decayed, its meltwaters formed the lake, and over thousands of years sediments precipitated to the bottom of the lakebed. These lacustrine soils are the parent soils of today's Red River Valley. The river itself is very young; it began only after Lake Agassiz drained, about 9,500 years ago. Wikipedia)
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