Day 9 (August 14)

     Well today was pretty uneventful after the week we have had seeing the sites although we did see the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD. I don't know why they built it but it is more than 100 years old and has been rebuilt a couple of times. They decorate the front with corn and corn shocks, etc. Here are a few pictures:

After that exhilarating experience we headed east toward Minnesota, stopping at a couple of antique stores along the way. We got to our destinatio of Rochester , Minnesota at around four and then set up camp and went to dinner. We saw a lot mor windmills in South Dakota and Minnesota and even saw some  windmill turbine blades being hauled on the interatate. Each blade is HUGE!

Oh! And by the way...we finally saw two herds of buffalo in South Dakota (on a farm of all things). It was actually pretty funny!


We arrived in Rochester, Minnesota (where Mayo Clinic is) and set up camp. We were next to the pool and the play area...and you know what that means...noise. We went into town and had dinner, visited the book store there and then came back and went to bed.

A storm blew up and just about blew the tent away! But we didn't really get wet. In the morning we were awakened by 3 boys playing (loudly) in the play area at 6:30 a.m....where were their parents?
That is really the first time anything like that has happened so we were lucky.