For those of you who are still with us, we have settled into a kind of routine here in Eden Prairie.
We were awakened at 1:30 a.m. by tremendous thunder as a storm system moved through. Rainy morning. Mark needed to put in an hour or so of work this morning and Fred (who has wrested control of the notebook away from Mark to make today's entry) whiled away the time in a large shopping mall a couple of blocks away.
Lunch with Mark's mom, Georgia; his sister, Diane; and her children Emily and Nicholas.
We explored some areas of Minneapolis that we hadn't been in before. We continue to be amazed at the neighborhoods tucked in among lakes, creeks, and various parklands. Today's finds were a stately neighborhood called Kenwood, abutting the more reasonably priced Lake Forest. All sorts of architecture -- from baronial to more modest ramblers to downright Modernist. Just to show that the Bay Area doesn't have a premium on high-priced real estate, we saw one relatively modest rambler (the local vernacular for "ranch-style") for sale. When we looked at the flyer in front, it was being marketed as a tear-down at $1.1 million! After a couple of hours, we were dizzy from translating the tiny print on our roadmap into the actual streets we were attempting to navigate.
For tonight's dinner we were all taken out by Diane and Dave (Mark's brother-in-law) -- and joined by Diane's son Tony -- to the Twin Cities Diner in . . . . the Mall of America!! We saw only a fraction of it, but it is obvious that shopping there could be overwhelming.
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Everyone looks great! I'd love to see a picture of Dave, as well, if you can manage it. I've never seen a photo of him. Tell Georgia, Diane, and all the family hello for me!
I miss hearing thunder... lucky you!
The 1.1 M "teardown" sounds disturbingly familiar; I hope that it is the exception there.
We ordered Silhouette blinds for our sliding-glass door and are ditching the old verticals. Onward and upward!
Love,
Margy
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