Worth the Trip

As my lovely wife has mentioned in her blog, we had a great time in North Dakota. Grand Forks has some good stuff going on. The drive down to Grand Forks was pretty bad and my nerves were slightly frazzled. With the snow that came during the week and then the wicked wind, the roads were slightly less slippery than a spongee rink. There was at least an inch of ice covering most of the roads and just for fun there was bumps here and there. That made it really interesting because every once and a while the tires would kick out a little. In the first 10 minutes of driving out of Winnipeg we saw 6 cars / trucks in the ditch. That got Michelle in the right frame of mind...

Crossing the border was pretty painless. We had a guy that was not in a very good mood. I guess that is what they are paid for. At least we didn't have to get inspected. In total it took us 90 seconds and we were through. The roads in ND were pretty good, just blowing snow everywhere with the occasional drift.

We were pretty happy to get to the hotel.

I wasn't very thrilled with the mall in Grand Forks, matter of fact the only thing that we got there was a Pretzel. The stores kind of sucked for us. My parents were always pushing JC Penny on us, but we didn't really find anything there.

Our goldmine was found at Gordman's. It is right beside the Super Target and the best way to describe it is Winners on Steroids. The difference is that where Winners has one offs, Gordman's has the same thing in every size. I couldn't believe that they had my size in a lot of clothes. I also managed to find a pair of shoes that I like. I finally can retire my old CATS since they have a huge hole in them...

Over all the trip was really relaxing and we had a lot of fun. The food was great too... All I can say is deep fried ice cream.

On another note, Michelle has been putting the word out that I have had a little bit of a change in cut and color. So for all of you who have not seen me yet, here you go!