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| Saturday - September 16 - Saint Cloud Started out the morning working on the blog so, just maybe, we might catch up. Then we headed out to do some exploring of the downtown area. |
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| First up was the Farmer's Market right across the street from our motel. |
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| Next up, Fitzharris Ski, Bike and Outdoor store to do some drooling. |
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| St. Mary's Cathedral - our sound of the day was the bells which rang every hour |
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| We didn't think we were in Florida. |
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| The Stearns County Courthouse |
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| Doug needed a book to replace the one he finished a week ago so we just had to spend some time in an old-fashioned bookstore. |
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| It used to be a bank building now filled with shops and restaurants |
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| See.....we aren't the only ones! |
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| Quarks for lunch. It is a build your own rice bowl with lots of fresh vegetables to choose from. This is their 1st store but look out Portland, they want to expand. |
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| Lake George Park.... |
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| .....where the St. Cloud Pridefest was happening. Lots of booths of all kinds, do-it-yourself arts and crafts,...... |
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| ......bungee jumping, |
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| ..... and live music |
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| We aren't sure what kind of seeds these are but they came out of a big pod, and were fascinating. |
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| We got back to the motel at 1:30 and the predicted rain showed up about 2:15. We blogged and it rained on and off for about 2 hours. |
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| We wanted to attend the 5 pm Vigil mass at St. Mary's. We got there about 15 minutes early and listened to the pipe organ music until the mass started. |
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| Those columns are made out of marble. |
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| They are fund-raising to do a $50,000 restoration of the pipe organ. Notice that they used 9 categories of angels for donation amounts. Some one was very creative! Dinner at a nice, little Chinese buffet topped off our rest day and we did catch up on the blog. Thank you, Saint Cloud! |
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| September 11 to September 16 Grand Rapids to Saint Cloud - 181 miles 517 total miles |
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