Well. Here we are. Perpetually early and sitting at our gate long before we needed to be here. We highly recommend flying out of T2 at MSP. The line is nauseously shorter.
Per usual, both of us got pulled aside in security. Amanda made another best friend with her pat-down buddy and all of our board games in my bag got personally screened by a man who referred to me as a "dork". I couldn't argue. He wasn't wrong...
Today went remarkably smoothly. This morning started with an instant replay of my high school days when my mother came over to find me still asleep past when she thought I'd be up. (Admittedly it was before my alarm went off so for once, I didn't sleep through it.) We then hiked it to the bank and got a bunch of paperwork notarized. We left Lanesboro around 10:30 am.
With the road between Chatfield and Marion closed effective this morning, we took a detour through Stewartville and grabbed Amanda's mother in Rochester. We then went out for the most spectacular lunch.
Seriously.
Go check out this menu.
We split a wild mushroom bruschetta and then I had the most amazing wild mushroom pasta. They handmake the noodles in the morning and they tasted like ... ugh. I can't describe it here. People are already looking at me as I roll my eyes back remembering the scallops. And then the dessert. It wasn't a mousse; it wasn't a cream. It was like if you folded egg whites into a lemon custard. Except it wasn't that.
Just go there and eat it. What is this? A food blog? (Amanda: "I mean... kind of?")
We then drove north, stopping for a round of Chai teas at Moka, and arrived at the airport approximately 5 hours and 45 minutes early. We then got a lovely tour of my mother's old stomping grounds and then decided to head on over to the airport to hang out for a while before Amanda and I bopped through security.
After about 2 hours (or 8$ worth of parking at MSP), our mothers departed back home and we went off through security. We won't see our checked baggage until Wednesday afternoon, so I hope the poor people of Taiwan and Bangkok are ready for how poorly I'm going to smell in 2 days!
And now we sign off from Minnesota. We have to go find some place for me to plug in my computer. Handmaid's Tale isn't going to watch itself...
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