going down with the ship

Remember the February cruise I announced we were going on?  It looks like the trip plan is off (and it has nothing to do with that cruise ship sinking in Italy about a day after I told you I was going on my first cruise), so maybe this won't be my first year to take a vacation during a busy season after all... OR who knows?  Maybe, since everybody seems to think I should take a vacation break, something else will come up...

Yesterday's drive out of the Twin Cities turned out to be fairly directionless after all (but I do love driving my car!).  I went about eighty miles north, noticed or remembered how many grossly overweight and Tea Party people there are in outstate Minnesota (coincidence?), hung out there for a while, got bored, came home.  The skyline of Minneapolis welcomed me.