Say Yes To The Dress

 

 

Well, I was going to post these photos tomorrow but here they are now.  We used our Minnesota Historical Society yearly family pass to visit the Mill City Museum in Minneapolis.  This museum of the history of the milling of wheat is built in the ruins of the old Washburn A Mill next to the Stone Arch Bridge in downtown Minneapolis.

There’s a good shot of the Stone Arch Bridge as it takes a curvy path across the Mississippi river just below the most northerly locks on the river.

The Mill went defunct in 1965 when it became cheaper to grind flower with electricity instead of with water power.  There was a huge fire in the mill in 1991 that pretty much gutted the insides.  Down on the floor you can see a woman dressed in white.  Yes, she is wearing a wedding dress.

We had our family day after stopping at Best Buy to have the Geek Squad give their opinion on Christoph’s non-working computer.  It might be the mother board.  Christoph might be buying a new and shiny computer without any umlauts on the keyboard.

Note the warped steel beams from the intensity of the 1991 blaze.

This is Tyrone Guthrie nibbling on my hand.  We walked around inside the Guthrie Theater for some more good views of the river and downtown.

And then, we headed over to The Black Forest Inn for a late lunch/early dinner.  We were almost alone in the restaurant and they didn’t have the Malthausen (spelled incorrectly) that Sue really wanted.  Christoph declared the bread sehr lecker except he said it in English—”very good.”

He said the Weisswurst was good, too but the sauerkraut tasted funny.

During the previous week of Oktoberfest celebration at the Black Forest Inn they’ve had different German theme nights.  Yesterday was “Angela Merkel Day” and apparently they passed out photos of Germany’s leader and had a caption contest. 

This one if probably the best.  I asked Christoph if there was a possibility that there exists in Germany an American restaurant (say Hooters or Applebees) that has had a Barak Obama night in which they passed out embarrassing photos of him and had people write funny captions on them.  He thought not.

I actually have no idea what this caption means.

We had a good meal despite the lack of the Swabian specialty that was promised on the website.

We played chess together for the first time.  Christoph’s got game.  My record: zero wins and three losses.

 

Here’s an action shot of the programming of the new ultra-cheap phone.  Johanna’s and Katarina’s old phone which Christoph had been using now requires that money be put on it every month.  He didn’t use up the money in the first month so we decided that he needed a cheaper and less wasteful option.