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Enjoy a Canoe Ride
Fossum Family Reunion
We celebrated the Fossum family in southern MN.
Dog-Sit Bonnie
Buy a Car
We upgraded from our 1994 Honda to a Nissan Rogue.
Test Drive a Car Overnight
Used car salesman Jack let us test drive a Volvo overnight. We drove up to Stillwater and had dinner. Came home and put the car to sleep in the parking lot. In the morning we returned the car. The sales technique almost worked – but the car was too far out of our budget.
Go Bowling
Lefse
I made lefse for the Fossum family reunion. It is much more enjoyable to cook lefse in the winter.
Enter Dolores in a Wiener Dog Race
Canturbury Downs has yearly wiener dog races. This year I decided that Dolores should race since she is fast. My only concern was she is half wiener dog, half who knows what. The lady that organizes the race assured me that it was okay. So I signed Dolores up. We drove to Canterbury Downs and by the time we arrived it was pouring rain and freezing cold. The race was delayed once, then twice and once more. Finally the race was postponed. And Dolores didn’t get to race. We couldn’t make it to the postponed date.
Tour a Bourbon Distillery in Kentucky
One thing Kentucky is known for is their bourbon. So, when in Kentucky… drink some bourbon. And lucky for us our friend Steve was also in Kentucky with a rental car!
We drove down the bourbon trail and found The Heaven Hill distillery.
We arrived just as a tour had started. We sneaked in to a small theater and caught the end of a movie about the distillery. Then the tour guide took us on a walking tour across the road to one of the bourbon warehouses.
Walking in the warehouse the smell of bourbon was warming! The tour guide, Allen, took us through the warehouse and pointed out things and told us interesting tidbits here and there and threw in a few sexist comments as well.
Allen told us about barrel rolling contests that the employees have and told us that “They even let the ladies compete.” Oh, Allen.
We walked back across the street to the Bourbon Heritage Center. Inside we all lined up and went into the largest tasting barrel.
Allen led us through a tasting of two of Heaven Hills finer bourbons. The bourbons were good and left us with a buzz.
After the tasting Allen thanked us for coming and gave us a bourbon chocolate. We emptied out of the barrel into the gift shop.
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