Fun in Minnesota

Our KKI leadership team meetings have come to an end, but I'm staying a few extra days in Minnesota to connect with friends here. Some Scottish friends are having a Spanish holiday in Alhaurín, staying in my house and looking after the cats, so that gave me the opportunity to visit a friend here and her two Scottish dogs - a Westie and a Scottie. We've gone for multiple walks around the neighbourhood, and also down to the nearby Minnehaha Falls Park, here in Minneapolis.

Today we drove a couple of hours northwards to visit another friend. who took us on a drive through the Jay Cooke State Park, where we stopped to cross the swinging bridge across the St Louis River, which was rushing wildly due to the freshly melted snow.

Then we drove onwards to Lake Superior, making a short detour into the state of Wisconsin before crossing back into Minnesota and eating lunch in the lakeside city of Duluth, where we also walked on the solid ice at the edge of the partly frozen lake. We spotted deer by the roadside and it was a lovely outing on a brisk, but fairly sunny day.