Jackson, MN

Left Adel Friday morning at a fairly decent hour.  I believe we pulled out shortly after 9 am.  Of course, we needed to stop at the next exit - 4 miles away - to fill the camper tires with air.  Truck was fine but we had one tire on the camper that only had 40 psi.  Ugly!!!  So after filling the tires with more air, we were on the road and all before 10 am.  We are soooooo proud of ourselves.

It's Saturday afternoon and as you can imagine - football is on TV.  You have it right - the Iowa/Iowa State game.  From the noise coming from the corner chair - Iowa is currently behind. 

It was a great morning.  We slept in until around 9 am.  And just think we were almost on the road yesterday.  It was a little chilly this morning.  Kind of a nice change of pace.  That means we had a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast.  After breakfast and close to noon, we headed out to the grocery store.  Decided we needed nachos for the game and of course, I didn't have the ingredients.  On the way to the store, we saw a field with a lot of kites.  Apparently there is a kite club and the public was invited today.  Here are a few of the pics that we took.

On Wednesday before we left we took a trip up to Ames to the Reiman Gardens.  Sharon saw an ad about the Lego giant sculptures.  There were 27 sculptures.  We found all 27.  Also went into the butterfly room.  We couldn't believe all of the species of butterflies that they had. 

This one is called the owl butterfly.  We couldn't get a pic with the wings open.  There were so many unique ones but we have never seen a green/black one and the other reminded us of stars in the sky.

 In another post I'll include some pictures of the lego statues and gardens.  They were really amazing.