North of Normal

We are on the way to Fargo North Dakota.  But first we are stopping at Crafts Direct.  KW, get up and get moving. Why, more old people's stores on the way?  No KW, but we are stopping at a craft store.  What's a crap store?  No KW, not a crap store, a craft store.  Oh great a craft store.  I was just starting to like old people's stores.

Crafts Direct.

32 Rows with 3 isles.


Any craft item you desire they have.


Mrs. tour says this store is Hobby Lobby, only on steroids.


Tour guide don't slow down, speed up, faster faster.  KW, what is wrong now?  Don't look, but across the road there is group of holding tanks.  Holding tanks for what?  KW is your imagination  running wild again?  No, really tour guide, those tanks are from outer space.  They are here to collect our bodies before we are dead, and grind us in to dust.

 Space Aliens Silos


Tour guide look it's another group of silo's and look at that pile of dust.  Do you believe me now?  KW, that's a pile of sand.


We are now in Fargo North Dakota spending a few days in the Staybridge Suites.  KW, what do you think of this place?  I really like it tour guide, I finally have my own TV to watch all the Warner Brothers cartoons 24-7.  Oh boy, that sounds like loads of fun KW wink wink.

Staybridge Suites Fargo.


You will find out about the Bison later.


Hey tour guide I'm hungry lets eat.  Ok where to KW?  Lets go to the Space Aliens Grill, or maybe Himalayan Yak, or Smiling Moose Rocky Mountain Deli, or HoDo Lounge, or Vinyl Taco, or..... KW, will you just pick one, and where are you getting all that information?  Come on tour guide, I'm using Yelp.  Ok KW, I'll pick one.  We are going to The Toasted Frog.

The Toasted Frog.


Hey tour guide look at this, they have frog legs.  OK, lets order some, I hear they taste just like chicken.  Tour guide, are you kidding?  Please don't finish the joke.  Ok KW, I won't.  But we are ordering frog legs as an appetizer.  No, No, Nooooooooo tour guide, they may come from a friend of mine.  What are you talking about KW?  One of my Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies friends, Michigan Frog.  KW it's not Michigan frog, trust me.  Well ok, but I'm not eating frog legs, I don't like chicken.

Sunset over Fargo.


TTFN:

PS:

Fun North Dakota Facts:

North Dakota is:
The Peace Garden State.
The 2nd highest oil-producing state in the USA 1.08 Mil barrels per day.
ND has 3 times more cattle than people.
Unemployment Rate is 2.9%, 3rd lowest rate in the United States.
Winter Temperatures can drop to a chilly -60 F.
Summer Temperatures can rise to a scorching 120 F.
Produces enough sugar beets to sweeten 27 billiongallons of Kool-Aid.
There are over 90,000 Bison in North Dakota.
8,962 people made snow angels at the state capitol grounds, breaking the Guinness World Record for the most Snow Angels made simultaneously in one place.

Michigan Frog is alive and well and not an appetizer, but at KW and Mrs. tour guide's insistence, we did not have frog legs.



Oh yeah, KW just reminded me that he forgot to say that Wisconsin was our 48th State.  North Dakota is our 49th State.  Only one to go.  Our 50th state will be the 50th State added to the Union, Hawaii.  We didn't plan it that way.  You just can't drive there.  Oh, by the way, that reminds me of a joke. Well maybe later.