On Friday, Cole and I headed to yet another soccer ID camp. One of our family friends plays on the St. Mary's team, and Cole met the coach the week before in Schaumburg, who mentioned there would be a camp the next week. This one was only a few hours. We drove up Friday night, checked into our hotel, had Mexican food, then went to sleep.
While Cole was at camp, I wandered the campus. It's not a very large one, but very pretty.
I also walked along the Mississippi River and streets of Winona, MN.
Unfortunately, the weather was terrible. Torrential downpours. Fortunately, I took cover in a cafe for lunch and was able to stay there awhile.
I really wanted to visit the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, which also ended up being a perfect place to be during the storm. There were some pretty significant artists (Van Gogh, Monet, Cezanne and more) and artworks (one of versions of Washington Crossing the Delaware by Leutze for example) represented there. Unfortunately, I couldn't take photos in the permanent gallery, but was able to in the others. Here are some of my favorites:
Pretty spectacular, right?
From the outside.
It sits along the River.
I was able to catch a few minutes of Cole playing. He had a really great day and was so glad to be able to check it out. Unfortunately, the ride home was grueling. Very slow, fast wipers and hazards the last 1.5 hours of the ride.
What a crazy week. On Tuesday, we had a massive storm. This is the view from our window when a tree knocked out a power line. The neighbors on both sides of us have trees down on power lines, so we, along with another 180,000 homes, lost power that night.
And guess what? Almost 72 hours later, we still don't have power. It's down to about 13,000 and we are one of the lucky few. Fortunately, our neighbors across the street are doing ok, so they let us run an extension cord to their house. It's seriously saved us. We have one freezer hooked up, and charging stations for our technology. Hope this gets fixed soon.
At 8:00pm Friday night, the power turned back on. What a welcome sight these power trucks from Michigan were. It feels so great to be back to civilization.
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