Beginning of August

 Our time is running out--we leave Minnesota on the 13th of August and we have a lot to do.

One thing was to visit our Florida/Minnesota friends at their home in Stillwater. No this isn't their house, but we took a trolley tour of historic Stillwater and saw some beautiful restored mansions of the logging barons of the late 1800s. Beautiful homes, many made into Bed and Breakfast Hotels, many still a private residence.

We stopped a spell at the top of the 157 downtown steps from lower Stillwater to upper Stillwater (reminded me of Quebec City) to look over the city to the oldest lift bridge in the US and onto the St. Croix River as it meanders past the town.

Just a note: we have a new email address: monacomitch@me.com.