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Note - I saved this as a draft and then came back and edited and added pictures, etc. Then I saved it again as a draft. By now it's a little stale but it's public

Have been to Lacrosse. Had a perfect perfect PERFECT day. Weather is beyond lovely. Warm but very dry air, sunniness, breezes.... just perfection. Jim and I got along pretty well. He did not follow too close and I didn't get mad. So all was well.

We stopped in Lansing for gas and more ice and coffee. I fill the First Nations cup with ice from the ice dispenser and then fill the ice filled cup with hot coffee. I did it on the way up and on the way back. Just buying the coffee/ice was eighty four cents. I am developing a love for iced coffee. Not even sure why. The hot coffee melts a lot of the ice thus diluting the coffee which is fine with me. I like weak coffee and I like the clink of ice in a container. Makes me happy.

Drive up was beautiful. Water is high but not too high. We saw a Mercedes Benz sedan at the foreign car place that made me drool. Later after breakfast at Fayzee''s we saw a copper colored Corvette parked on the street. Happy to be in the land of internal combustion and fancy sheet metal. I love the Buick but God made little silver Mercedes and little copper Corvettes for a reason. I didn't get a picture of either vehicle but I did get a picture of a bunch of bumper stickers on the back of a little Ford.

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We had a nice breakfast at Fayzee's - Jim had his regular breakfast - toast, hash browns, scrambled eggs, bacon and orange juice. I had iced tea, a cowboy omelette that seemed to have roast or barbecued beef in it and a bowl of fruit.

We had two walks - first while waiting for our table - we walked down to the bridges - second waiting for the book store to open - we walked to the river and then up through the flower garden and back down behind the Freight House.

At the book store I got a book about President's fathers - inscribed Happy Father's Day - 2004 somebody & Kathy (First Fathers The Men Who Inspired Our Presidents by Harold I. Gullan, Nina Garcia's Look Book What to Wear for Every Occasion and an Updike novel I think I must have missed Toward the End of Time.

We also got Will a birthday card and asked the book guy to look up Chanhassen's zip code and he did and wrote it on the envelope. The card had a little boy in a pedal car and said Every cool guy has a cool car. We put $8 in it and mailed it off from Brownsville - which still has a post office.

We bought groceries - good time - lovely checkout person and handsome bagger. On way home we stopped at Reno Bottoms and walked out to the bench. I thought the water would be too high but it wasn't. It's high in Lansing with the dam at Lynxville holding water back from McGregor and Prairie. And high in Lacrosse along the water front but not especially high at Reno Bottoms. Go figure.