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Our Trip to Minot, ND |
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September 22nd, 2005 - September 27th, 2005 |
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We took our fourth trip to Minot.
This time, Jared was old enough to play with family. We enjoyed seeing
Paul's family again. We had another fireworks display, brought to us
by Michael Carlson Fireworks Inc. :) We had fun visiting family,
including Jared's great grandma. We also got to take a tour of Minot's
Scandinavian Heritage Center. Check out the pictures below of our
trip. |
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Jared enjoying a ride in Grammy's wagon. Wow, now
that's a wagon :) |
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Hi Jared. Enjoying your ride? |
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Jared swinging in the swing under one of Grampy and
Grammy's trees. |
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Paul and the fireworks. WOW! That's a lot
of fireworks!! |
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Hey Jared, do you think you have enough fireworks
there?? |
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Michael lighting a parachute for us, as a pre-game
show. |
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Oooooo, there it goes! |
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Mary ran and got the chute! YEA Mary!! |
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Yummy apples from the neighbor's apple tree. |
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Hey now, Jared. Is that the same apple that was
on the tree?? |
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Can't say too much with a mouthful :) |
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Jared in his Halloween costume, a fighter pilot. |
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Maybe Minot AFB will take you :) |
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Folks watching more of the daytime pre-game fireworks. |
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Look up Jared! It's more parachutes!! |
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Jared giving Grandpa some of the confetti from the last
firework. |
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Jared playing in the sandbox with Cousin Nicole. |
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And Great Aunt Lylia wants to play too! |
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"This is fun! Let's keep playing!" |
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Ah, the special fireworks cake...very yummy too :) |
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A fireworks fountain. |
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Oooooo, big fireworks in the air! |
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Ahhhhhh... |
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Pretty cool fireworks! |
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Really fancy fireworks. |
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Oooooo... |
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Jared saving his soda in his car :) |
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"No one better take my soda" |
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A leftover parachute in the tree. |
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Jared, are you having fun in Grammy's birdbath? I
think you are getting a bath too :) |
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Asters from Martha's garden. |
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A bee and asters. |
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Poppies, too, from the garden. |
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Jared giving Great Grammy a high five. |
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Great Grandma and Jared. |
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Some pictures of the landscape in Minot. |
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Hay! :) |
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A few rolling hills. |
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One of many barns, in the foreground, and the grain
elevator, in the background. |
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Another barn. |
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We made some stepping stones one afternoon. One
with Jared's shoeprints in it. |
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One with a pretty rainbow in it. |
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Jared getting on the car Grammy got him. |
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"Oooo! I found the remote to the light in
Grammy's pretty china cabinet. FUN!" |
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Jared loved playing with this booster seat, either
sitting or standing (and falling) on it. |
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Minot has a Scandinavian Heritage Center,
filled with buildings and monuments from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland
and Iceland.
This is a Norwegian stabbur, or a sod roofed log storehouse. |
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Carvings on the stabbur. |
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This is a 230-year-old house from Sigdal, Norway,
that was dismantled, shipped to Minot and reassembled in the park. |
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The largest Dala Horse (nation's symbol of Sweden) in
North America. |
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A replica of the Norwegian Gol Stave Church. |
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A few pictures of the carvings on the church, here at
one of the doors. |
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The roofline. |
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The crosses on top. |
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The Nordic-style visitor's center. |
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Carvings on the visitor's center. |
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A Danish windmill. |
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An International flag display...
U.S., Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Canada. |
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Family picture time :)
Michael and Samara. |
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Paul, Jared and Maria. |
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Mary, Martha, Jared and Maria. |
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John and Mary. |
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The Carlson kids and Mom. |
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Jared shaking hands with the wood-carved Ogre inside
the visitor's center.
"Hi Mr. Ogre! Nice to meet ya." |