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.

This weekend we planned on hitting up the last few historic sites that aren't in Fargo-Moorhead. But first Little buddy had his first taste of food. Watermelon. He's growing up. Scott has been very busy with work. With Meadow and Theo home he doesn't get much done. I took the kids to a playdate and then over to Oliver Kelley's Farm for the day so he could work. Meadow and I came here last fall. I wanted to see it in summer when the gardens were growing. It wasn't very busy so all kids got to help with farm chores. They asked a little boy for a piece of wood and Meadow ran out to find one first. The next day we took a little day trip to knock off two more Minnesota Historical Society sites . This stop brought us to the W.W. Mayo house in Le Sueur. When the house was built there were only temporary homes and shacks in the area. This house was considered a mansion compared to the others. You can almost imagine it seeming ...

...Continued from Part 1 The next morning we ate our pastries from Johnson's Bakery before heading out again.

We made it safely to Bayfield without getting attacked by any bears . I think that's because of my wily driving skills.