We went to the mill city farm market and the new Guthrie Theater for a Saturday outing.  I am pretty sure it was the weekend before Megan and Aaron's anniversary.  I don't remember a lot of the details, but just down the street the Gophers were playing the Indiana at the metrodome.  It was a beautiful day.  The farm market was excellent, and I remember Claire shared some beef tongue taco with us.  She loved it!  Thank you chef shack...start em on variety meats while they are still young and don't care where it came from you know.  

Here is a picture of the farm market (low left) and the obvious...taken from the cantilever viewing area at the Guthrie.  
This would be essentially the same view from inside, but looking more directly over the market.  Claire liked looking out the window.  She was getting her exercise crawling down the runway like hall at the Guthrie.  

Lots of room to crawl and practice that.

Here is a rare family photo without a thumb.  Thanks to the nice ladies who took the picture! 
This is Claire's reflection in the stainless steel deck of the cantilevered viewing area outside at the Guthrie.  She loves shiny and bling as you all know, so this place is perfect for her.  

Here is a great picture of Claire and Gracie.  She was playing with a fetch toy and managed to come close enough for a nice pet.  She knows better than to get too close to Claire's loving but uncoordinated hands. 
Here are some pics of the first time Megan found Claire standing on her own.  She thought it was awfully quiet and so decided to check in on her.  She had been working on clearing the whole shelf of toys.  Thats what they are there for though, just didn't know they were such great incentives for her.  

No turning back now, she will be very mobile soon!

Yeah, I thought those might get your attention.  Gratuitous fish porn.  Jim, Joe, and Dan above with a few of their big fish.  Yeah, we typically caught some like this every day, couldn't keep em off our lines for catching some good eaters.  Some of Quetico's finest walleye from the Clausen family secret spot.  Thanks for sharing it with me.  Glad you enjoyed the steak on the coals, polish sausages, bacon and the tomatoes in the back country.  We sure did eat well.  Chalk this trip up as another one where the fish by the pound cost far outweighed the worth of the tackle.    

Not many chances in your life do you get to go on a true fishing pilgrimage like this one to 'El Dorado' in the Quetico Provincial Park just north of the Minnesota border.  I am leaving out a few of the biggest fish pictures.  I did not catch the biggest fish, and I am okay with that.  And for the record, no I am not telling you where El Dorado is.  
I might have been the only guy along who actually caught fish of a size we didn't feel too guilty eating. 
I also may have been the guy who caught the most; and I am sure I lost the most lures (5) and 3 of those were still on fish...on a 20 pound leader and 10 pound test.  Yeah, for the record, you can catch walleye on leaders and 10 pound test.  Don't let those nay sayers (outfitters whose livelihood it is to get you on fish) fool you.