First Day Of Site Seeing

On Saturday, March 10, Tom, Joe and I drove through some of the historical parts of Minneapolis and then headed off to Stillwater, an old, popular, small, quaint, sawmilling town. We had lunch at a beautiful restaurant called The Dock. It sits on the bank of the St. Croix River and even in the Minnesota winter, the scenery is beautiful as you can see. One of the special unexpected things for Joe was that we crossed the drawbridge and spent maybe a whole five minutes in Wisconsin. Joe is adding states to his visit as fast as we can make it happen.

On Tuesday, we will be heading to Iowa where Joe will be the guest speaker at my daughter-in-law's 6th grade classroom. They just did a unit on Ireland in February and the children will get to meet and talk to someone who was born and raised in Ireland.

It is wonderful to just watch Joe. He looks and looks at things and will occasionally say, "It just takes time to let it really sink in that I am in America...not just in America but in Minnesota." I know he is experiencing what I experienced when we visited Ireland. There really aren't words to describe the wonder of it. It is simply a wordless experience that is felt.