Go Gophers!!!

Minnesota has a new stadium! The University of Minnesota Golden Gophers' football team has been playing in the indoor Metrodome for a generation - sharing it with the Vikings. But a new stadium has just opened on the U of M campus... Memorial Stadium was dedicated tonight, and we were invited to the VIP reception. There was a flyover of WWI aircraft, speeches, and bands. The first game is tomorrow against the Air Force Academy, and a flight of F-16s and a B-2 Spirit bomber will fly over just before kickoff!

This is a beautiful stadium, and it supposedly has the 2nd largest large screen TV at the open end of the stadium. Pretty cool! Outdoor football will be great, but there will be some cold games late in the season...

A Girl & Her Dog...

Nothing much to say here - just CC shaking off water on the boat... Ahhh.... White Bear Lake...

A Long Weekend...

Sunny and beautiful! We spent some of the long labor-day weekend at Grandma and Grandpa's cabin. There was no humidity, no bugs and no rain... amazing! The kids had s'mores around the fire, and tubed and skied on the quiet lake...

Our 7-foot tall rocket was launched at the park... you can just see the water at the base launching it in this picture.

Luke would rather use the rocket as a bazooka, of course!