So Hope and I are surviving the ugly time of spring. Not really warm enough to dry things up, but warm enough to make them very wet. As you can see from were my truck is parked and the front of the drive way.
And speaking of ugly things, I just got done fixing the turn signals on the Nissan. Instead of paying forty dollars apiece for new stock turnsignals, I just went down to the local farmers supply store and picked up two trailer turnsignals for five dollars a piece (thanks for the idea Dad)! Thats a savings of seventy dollars! So now my truck is finally street legal with working lights all around. Time to start driving it.
We got in pretty late at night (driving up after getting off of work), so we slept in the next morning then went out for a tasty breakfast. Brian's breakfast the morning after we arrived- cheese french toast.
We had hors' devours and drinks (I had cape cods) one afternoon after spending some quality time in a downtown bookstore. 
The tomato and mozzarella salad was delicious! 
Downtown Minneapolis is cool because all the downtown buildings are connected by skyways. So, you don't actually have to walk outside. We did just to get the fresh air, but it was fun seeing all the people inside. There was hardly anyone on the streets. 
On the way back Brian and I did a little bit of genealogy work for Grandpa Platt and Aunt Judy. We stopped in a small town south of Minneapolis and found the Groveland cemetery to look for Platt stones. There was a lot of snow, but Brian actually found one! The large monument in the right of this photo is for Henry Platt and his family. Brian's digging out one of the smaller stones. 
