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Work Trip: Brooke Didn't Want to go to Fairmont, Minnesota and We go to the Science Museum

It seems like Brooke was always ready to tag along for my hotel shoot work trips. Apparently Fairmont wasn't on her list of place she'd be willing to tag along to.

There wasn't much around the area that I really wanted to do.


After work I wasn't super hungry, so I went and got a beer at Fairmont Brewing Company. It's pretty rad that there's a microbrewery in almost every decently sized city these days.

I walked by this unnamed food truck after a brewski. Also nice that there's decent Mexican food in every nook and cranny in these here United States. Incredible that conservatives some how think this is a bad thing.




Since I've been going on photo walks at all of my out of state shoots, might as well keep that up in Martin County.



This dive bar beckoned me, "You want another beer, Scott!"



Incredible that a county of just under 20,000 people once built a county courthouse this grand.


It looked the dive bar I'd walked past was closed, but when I peered in it was very much open. Ope. Gotta get a beer I guess. There's no such thing as the perfect dive bar they say, but the Blazer was right up there.

I went back over to my car decided to get a burrito from the taco truck and hang out with the local Mexican contractors. 

That is a heck of a burrito. Have no clue as to what this place was called, but it seems to be parked next to the brewery all the time.

After dinner I went for a little drive down by the city's chain of lakes. Just like Minneapolis, they like to call themselves the City of Lakes.






Until next time, Fairmont.

Back in the cities we decided we ought to do something fun.

I spy my childhood car.

It was too hot today so we took advantage of our Science Museum membership and spent the afternoon there.

The kids always like making patterns with this.

Not a super exciting end of the week, but it would do.

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