End of June

Dragon fly by our rig

The Paul Bunyan hiking, biking trail goes close to our park. The trail is

level and wide with trees and wildflowers. We walked and enjoyed time in nature. The weather is still cool but nice to walk in.

Red Winged Black Bird

There is a nice coffee shop in Nisswa with an outdoor patio. On Friday late afternoons a couple of college students perform music. They were pretty good! Next door is a pizza place where you can sit on the patio and still enjoy the singers. The pizza was good as well!

We have a family from Russia staying in the two bedroom suite for a couple of weeks. They have two boys going to hockey camp and a younger girl. It seems the hockey camp here is popular through out the world. We have enjoyed getting to know them.They are fascinated with campers and their rigs. They asked to see inside ours and asked lots of questions. What seems normal to us is totally foreign to them.

 

On a day off from camp hosting, we were invited by the owner to go on a boat ride. He has a cabin on an island that needed to be cleaned for a reservation coming up. He told us we did not have to help but thought we would like to take out the boat while they were cleaning!

So Dennis was very happy to get out on a Minnesota lake and drive a boat.

There were boats everywhere as it was a nice sunny day. 

Our view at lunch

A house on the lake.
I could live there!

We rode to a restaurant on the water, The Wharf, parked the boat and ate lunch on an upper deck and watched the boats go by. Good food and nice atmosphere made for a great day!

10:00 p.m. Still light out!

It is fun to see the sights of Minnesota; but, sometimes you just need to hang around camp and enjoy that, too!  We went to the market in Nisswa and purchased some homemade sausage links from a farmer. The other camp host couple was going to be busy checking in people, so Dennis smoked the sausage and I made sides and we had dinner for them in between checkins. They have cooked for us on days like this. It is nice to have a good dinner on days like this. Also, one of the other campers was interested in our smoker/grill, so there may be another one in the park soon! They are here for the summer.

Office/motel room/2 bedroom suite end of June.