the beauty of flat

spent the last 2 weeks in ND. we spent both weekends at the cabin, perhaps my favorite place on earth (in spite of the fact that now eleven kids swarm around during our annual gathering).

also had good times at the blue rider, charlie's, and dodging wembly. i went to josh duhamel's restaurant - 10 North Main - for the first time. fully expecting my ravioli to transform into bacon wrapped bacon, i was deeply disappointed. the food was good, and it's pretty inside. downtown minot needs a place like that, so it was cool to see it busy.

another staple in minot trips - taco pizza from happy joe's, so glad i worked that into this trip.

this photo was taken in my parents' front yard; there is a group of four big wild turkeys who roam the neighborhood like thugs. they have no fear...or brain power. if they are in the street and a car comes, they will very slowly and resentfully move out of the way, and then will stand a foot away and yell at the car. wild turkeys started showing up in the city a few years ago; that year was punctuated by the idiot down the street who decided to shoot one for thanksgiving.

out of order, but i have to show the gang of fabulous who took the road trip back with me.

and lastly, i have to vent about how incredibly awful the movie Gran Torino was. weren't people all over cackling about how great it was? it was absolutely painful to watch... the only reason white people liked it was because they got to safely giggle at all the racist things clint says.