Monday, errands day and canoeing

 

                                         

My morning work station

Sun is coming up

Morning mist

We went on a different trail of Jay's.

We had a nice morning walk.  

After our walk, breakfast, and shower we headed into Ely.  Jeanne had a bunch of errands to do to prepare for being away for a few weeks.  

When Jeanne was finished with her list of errands, we did a little dinking.

My favorite store, Mealey's Gift shop.

Then it was time for lunch.  We went to the Frisky Otter. It is a new restaurant.

Jeanne and I are pretty good about finding a sandwich to split.  The patty melt was delicious. 

After working on a little more paper work, we decided to take a break and go canoeing.  It was a perfect day for it.

Jeanne carried the canoe out!!! 

I wanted to take my phone but I did not want to risk it getting wet so I tried Nathan's phone water protector. It was a trial run for my possible rafting trip in Cesky Krumlov. It seemed to work pretty well.

Once we were in the water we talked to some neighbors and got them to take our picture.

It was a beautiful day.

Once we were back it was Smirnoff/margarita time again.  

We relaxed a bit before time to make dinner.  

We had green beans from the garden and chicken squares.  Another yummy meal. 

Each evening we have had a chance to relax, watch some TV, and work on various things like my blog.  

Sunday in Ely

We had a nice morning stroll.  What a nice way to start the day.  It was a bit chilly.  Luckily, I brought layers.

My favorite little island.  The trees are growing on it.  

Hidden gnome on the trail.

Some of the colors are starting.

After our walk, shower, breakfast, and coffee we got ready to go to church.

I saw a lot of familiar faces. That is always fun.  

We went to lunch at the GEL (Grand Ely Lodge)

Jeanne and I split the spinach, artichoke, chicken sandwich.  It was messy but quite tasty.

We stopped by the Harvest Moon Festival on our way home.

A lot of local arts and crafts.  I saw some fun things but I have no room in my suit case for anything extra.

We do a lot of bird watching

Jeanne's green bean patch.  We harvested some more beans.

Jay has been creating more trails through their woods.  

We went to the Kawishiwi Falls.  I always like going there.

We came home and it was a perfect time to sit on the deck with a Smirnoff.

What great weather we have been having. 

We had tacos, orange slices and Margaritas for dinner.  Yummy.   

To Ely

 I had an early flight to Minneapolis for my annual trip to Ely.  Very early.  6 am!! 

Do I look awake?

The Portland airport remodeling job is almost complete.  They have been working on it for years.  It is amazing.  There are still some "coming soon" stores/restaurants, but it is open.  It feels like a whole new airport.

Coming down the escalator to the main lobby

Loyal Legion is the main restaurant.  I have eaten at Loyal Legion in Beaverton.  It is quite good.

 I love all of the trees.

I had TSApre ✓ , so I zipped right through security with time to spare.  The gates did not look very different once I went through security.  

I ordered a box breakfast which was not very good. I just ate the hummus and pita chips.

I arrived in MSP on time at 11:30 am.  Jeanne and Jay met me.  We drove over to the Southwest Airlines to drop Jay off.  He was off to a golf weekend with friends. 

Once we got out of Minneapolis/St Paul we found a place to stop for lunch. We stopped at an Applebee's in Forest Lake, MN.

We split a sandwich for lunch.  It was delicious.  

We stopped  for gas in Cloquet, MN and then we stopped at Target in Virginia for some groceries.

From there we headed to Ely.  We got to Jeanne's about 6 pm.  

Nice welcome at Jeanne's.  

We settled in.  We had a nice dinner of left-overs.  It is nice to relax.