{"id":2353,"date":"2010-09-08T12:58:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T18:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2010-09-08T12:59:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T18:59:39","slug":"as-we-enter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=2353","title":{"rendered":"as we enter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listen, my friends. Bullet points are just going to have to suffice for now, because I am hella busy. You hear that? HELLA. (Also, I’ll probably write this up in my travel journal soon.)<\/p>\n

1) Camping on Friday night was so great. I was worried with the wind and cold, but our site was protected and we had a gigantic fire. We played cards and dominoes, drank manhattans, and grilled tacos after hiking for a couple of hours near the river. I love Jay Cooke state park a lot. It’s gorgeous.<\/p>\n

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2) Saturday morning, we went to see the world’s largest hockey stick and the US Hockey Hall of Fame<\/a> in Eveleth. It was absolutely worth the drive.<\/p>\n

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3) We checked in at the Sheraton in Duluth, then set to wanderin’. We met up with Jumi and Josh for dinner, then went to the casino where I won $45 and Matt won $400 at blackjack. Holy crap.<\/p>\n

4) Sunday morning, we did touristy things in Duluth:<\/p>\n

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5) Then it was time for Dan and Kate’s wedding!!!<\/p>\n

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<\/a>7) The reception was fantastic. Everybody had a great time, there was dancing and ridiculousness, Bally ended up in a chandelier, the cake had ninjas on it, and Jumi got caught trying to steal<\/del>borrow someone’s scooter. They ended the night with ‘Don’t Stop Believin’, too. Loved it.<\/p>\n

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8) Monday morning, we ran into Jumi and Josh again in Canal Park, so we brunched it up at Hell Burgers and then headed south, because Matt and I had tickets to see NAS and Damian Marley at First Ave. And while generally I would not go to a show around 10pm on a Monday after a very long weekend: sweet jebus, it was amazing. And even started on time, so we managed to get to bed around 12:30. Here’s video!<\/a><\/p>\n

9) Last night, we met up with one of Matt’s old high school friends at the Local, and stayed out way too late again. It was worth it, though.<\/p>\n

10) We’re going my last regular-season Twins game tonight, which means we may actually get to bed at a normal time tonight!<\/p>\n

11) Tomorrow is our only night off again for a while. Besides watching the Vikings game, I plan to harvest my soybeans. (I’m so proud of my farm.) Hopefully I’ll have time to get through my 100+ photos from this weekend, too!<\/p>\n

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*Cost for Minnesota state parks permit, good for a year from date of purchase: $25
\nCost for Wisconsin state \u00a0parks permit, good for a calendar year: $50
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Listen, my friends. Bullet points are just going to have to suffice for now, because I am hella busy. You hear that? HELLA. (Also, I’ll probably write this up in my travel journal soon.) 1) Camping on Friday night was so great. I was worried with the wind and cold, but our site was protected …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[43,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roadtrip","category-wedding"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-BX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}