About halfway through the trip, the landscape changed from flat farmland to hilly fir trees. Around this time, Marshall drove past three dead coyotes. Seeing the coyotes immediately gave Michelle second thoughts about camping in Minnesota!
Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes and the Mississippi River runs between St. Paul and Minneapolis. This was the first time either of us had crossed the River, so we felt like it was a big event. Marshall asked Michelle if they could move to the Minnesota wilderness to hunt caribou. Michelle said "no".
We made it to Minneapolis/St. Paul by 11:00 am and immediately concluded that we were NOT excited. Two things stood out about the Twin Cities: 1) The entire place was under road construction, including sidewalks, exit ramps, and main highways and; 2) There were at least 1 million parking garages. Who the hell is parking here, and why do they need so many parking garages??
Anyway, here's a picture of Minneapolis:
We stopped by the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome to get tickets for today's Twins/White Sox game. $8 each for the cheap seats. As you can see, this was by far the ugliest ballpark we have visited on this trip:
The inside isn't much better than the outside. The lighting is yellowish, the sound system is poor, and it's very hard to read the scoreboard. Thankfully the Twins are building a new ballpark:
The game itself was ho-hum. The pitching was sloppy, there were a lot of base hits, a few home runs and a couple errors.
Memorable moments: Michelle sneaking "apple juice" into the game for Marshall and nearly getting caught. Denard Span hitting a lead-off home run in bottom of the first. Mark Buehrle giving up 8 runs in 3 innings. Final score: Twins 13 / White Sox 7
Originally, we planned on staying in Minneapolis overnight, but instead we headed south and camped in southern Minnesota. We didn't let the boring Twin Cities dampen our spirits!
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