Fall Foliage!

Alright! I am too pooped from trekking all over northern Minnesota and Wisconsin today to add each and every one of my 43 photos that I took today to this site. So, instead, you can see them here, where I could add them all at one, instead of individually. This is my Flickr page. I have also loaded them onto my MySpace and Facebook pages, which is why I'm not going to add them here.

Anywho, the day started out nice and cool and cloudy. This is apparently the best lighting to have while taking pictures of trees, otherwise the Sun washes out all the colors. Not only did it get more cloudy, it also got more wet as the day progressed, and we got rained on a few times.

We picked Aaron's parents up from a KOA nearby and headed to Osceola, Wisconsin. By the time we got there, it was lunch time, and we stopped in a nice little place and had lunch. Then we headed down 150-some stairs to the falls (which is accessible right from downtown Osceola). After that, we headed to Stillwater, Minnesota to find Taylor's Falls and the pot holes that had been formed by glacial waters carving out stones. That is where we ended our day, and we never actually got to see the falls of Taylor's Falls, because we were on the Minnesota side of the St. Croix River, and the falls were on the Wisconsin side of the St. Croix River, and it was getting on into the afternoon and Buffy and Jasmine had to be let back outside of the camper, or Aaron's parents were going to have some mess to clean up!

We stopped by the campground to take care of the pets, then headed to Plymouth to eat dinner at the Old Chicago, went to the Lund's winery right next door, then headed to Wal*Mart for a few things. After that, we dropped off his parents, picked up some stuff that they brought us from Spearfish, SD, and headed home. And here I am now.

Tomorrow, we are going to IKEA, then to Aaron's workplace so he can show it off to his parents (and I haven't been in there since June when we first came out to visit), then True Thai, apparently the best Thai place in the Twin Cities for lunch, and who knows where else. We're also going to give his parents back the microwave and some other random things that we don't need here in this apartment so they can take it back to Spearfish with them. That will get a lot of things out of our hair that we don't have room for.

All in all, it was a very good day.