Froemmings

Clara woke up earlier than I think she was ready for the other morning. We'll have to try and start getting into the school routine of getting to bed at a decent time to be able to wake in the AM on time as well...like, starting tonight! Bedtime story. Dana had taken Friday off so he took the girls to Thunder Road and they had fun on the Go Karts and games there. There are still actually a few things we haven't checked off on our Summer Bucket List yet and Bonanzaville in West Fargo was one of them. We had gone there to visit Santa in December and tried to do some of the activities they had in the various village buildings, but it was so cold that we said we should come back in the summer when it's nicer outside to be able to walk in between the buildings. So,the girls and I did that yesterday afternoon. One building had two train cars stored in it and you could walk into the cars and see the inside a bit. I thought I had taken a pic of the outside of the cars, but I must h

This past weekend we finally made it on our trip to South Dakota. Our plan was to stop in Storybook Land in Aberdeen and then keep on to Auntie Shelly and Uncle Lester's house in Wolsey. I had been wondering if Storybook Land was still selling these personalized rulers after all these years. I love this one and use it all the time. I thought I could really use another. We had some extra time on Friday, so we stopped at The Flame for lunch. It was kind of an older supper club, I guess you would call it. I made the mistake of ordering the crab broil. That equated to a few clumps/shreds of imitation crab (I did know that it wouldn't be the real thing), mixed with lettuce into some kind of mixture which sat atop toasted English muffins with melted American cheese on top. We couldn't readily find the original place I had wanted to go to, so it was all the more disappointing that The Flame kind of missed the mark for me. I think everyone else's meal was okay though. After lun