Saturday, July 19, 2008

Day 9 - Twins Game

My niece Catherine is graduating from college (St. Olaf) this summer - so my mother hosted a gathering to celebrate this upcoming event. Although the weather looked threatening, the rain held off and we were able to celebrate in style. Below is a picture of my 4 siblings and my niece Catherine...



Clark: Oh Ellen, the old west was dirty. Everything isn't like home. If everything were like home, there would be no reason for leaving home. Right, Rusty?



One reason for leaving home is that you can actually take your kids to a major league baseball game without having to take out an unsecured loan. We had good seats to the Twins-Rangers game for $14 and that includes a hot dog and a coke. If that is not good enough - it was also Delmon Young bobblehead night ! As you can imagine Karen wanted to be there right when the gates opened to make sure they got the bobblehead....oh wait that was me. We had 16 people from our family attend the game and the Twins cruised to an easy victory.

Ellen Griswold: Clark, I need my vanity case. We've got to go back and look it. All of my credit cards are in it.

Clark: Honey, we can't. Because A: I already phoned the back and told them that you lost them. B: there's no way we're going to find it when we don't even know were it fell off. And C: I've got my credit cards and we sill have plenty of cash.

Ellen Griswold: No, we don't. You gave a loan of $500 to Eddie, and everything on this safari has already cost us twice as more then you figured out.

The first real bummer of the trip occurred tonight when my sister's mini-van was broken into while they were parked at the Twins game. They took their navigation system, iPod, video camera and some other stuff (including a memory card with bunch of digital pictures from the trip). Very depressing.....

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