In May we went to northern Minnesota for my niece Amy’s wedding.  After the wedding we spent a couple of days with family.  One of those days we drove over to the Vince Shute Wildlife Sanctuary in Orr, Minnesota.  My brother had taken my parents there years ago and Dad and Mom have raved about… [continue reading]

After exploring a mine and seeing the Eagle Veteran Memorial, we ended our day of sight seeing at Mineview in the Sky.  We drove up a high hill to the lookout.  The view overlooks the towns of Mountain Iron and Virginia Minnesota.  It was so pretty up there!  You can see an old mine and… [continue reading]

Our day of sight seeing in northern Minnesota began at the Soudan Mine and then took us to Veteran Memorial Park in Virginia, Minnesota.  The bronze statue is named “Soldier to Soldier Even the Fallen Stand Tall.”  My dad is a veteran, and he asked to have his photo taken in front of the memorial. … [continue reading]

Our time in northern Minnesota included a day of sight seeing.  We visited the Soudan Underground Mine in Soudan, Minnesota and took an underground tour traveling a half mile beneath the earth!  This was Minnesota’s first iron ore mine.  The mine opened in 1882 and stopped mining ore in 1962.  The ore mine here was… [continue reading]