This is a photo Jan took on our drive to Minnesota. The yellow flowering pants were everywhere for miles!
minneapolis/st. paul
We stopped in Minneapolis to visit our good friends, Manny and Carmen, whom we met 3 years ago on a boat tour of Lake Coeur d’Alene in Idaho. We had fun then, so knew we’d have a great time with them here! Carmen cooked us a wonderful Puerto Rican meal. Manny drove us all over the area showing us the sights. This was Minnehaha Falls in Minnehaha Park.We also visited the Guthrie Center in Minneapolis where we had a great view of the city. It’s a live music and entertainment theatre. It has a beautiful, welcoming interior. The General Mills Gold Medal Flower plant in downtown Minneapolis.Across the river is the Pillsbury’s Best Flour plant in downtown St. Paul. Apparently Minneapolis wasn’t big enough for two competing flour companies!Another bridge between Minneapolis on this side of the river and St. Paul on the other.I saw this in one of the parks and thought it was funny.Carmen resting in the park. Great day touring the city!
the spam museum?/ austin, minnesota
We couldn’t visit Minnesota without visiting the Spam Museum!Reserved parking for Spam Fans!There were lots of displays and memorabilia from the beginning of the company to present day.There was a lot of information about Spam during WWII.All through the museum you could see this conveyor above you with 780 cans of Spam on it!Meet Sir Can-a-Lot!They even had a motorcycle that runs on bacon grease!Some of the huge array of Spam memorabilia.There was even this huge Spam RC Rocket!Of course we couldn’t leave without stocking up with SPAM! I got a case of 12 different varieties plus a can of Portuguese Sausage Spam that wasn’t included in the case.
