Travel doesn’t always have to take us far from home. Here’s a bit of fun just minutes from Des Moines, Iowa: Last night was the Harvest Moon (the first full moon after the first day of fall). It is called the harvest moon because farmers were able to harvest crops long into the night by […]
Archives for September 2007
Minnesota Renaissance Festival, Shakopee, MN
I lived in the Twin Cities for 10 years and often miss so much of what I took for granted when I was there. One event that we go back for annually is the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. The festival runs weekends from mid-August thru the end of September. Each weekend features a different theme with […]
Cossetta’s Italian Market, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
If you are in the Twin Cities area you must make the trip into St. Paul to dine at Cossetta’s Italian Market and Pizzeria. Cossetta’s has been written about by everyone from the New York Times to Frommer’s Travel- and it never fails to make the “Best of the Twin Cities” list. For a perfect […]
Residence Inn, Eagan, Minnesota, USA
While we enjoy traveling with the girls we don’t enjoy sharing a room with them. Sometimes we don’t have option of a suite, but when we do you can be sure that we take advantage of it. On a recent get-away to the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota) we tried the Residence Inn. The Residence […]
