top of falls9 a.m. 72 degrees and 83% humidity. We did laundry etc this morning, so it was 92 when we visited this afternoon and don't know what humidity was. Had planned to visit Ev's cousin, but he was sick.
We think the last time we visited the falls was about 34 years ago. The kids may remember a picture of them with Grandpa C. and us there along the walkway that day. It was probably the first time we came back from Fbks on vacation. We walked down 119 steps to see it from the bottom today.
Across from it on the high ground in Minnehaha Park is this little train station called The Princess because of its Victorian gingerbread trim etc. It was built in the mid 1870's and throngs of people took the 16 minute ride from other parts of Minneapolis to the park and zoo. Others traveled from nearby Ft. Snelling to Mendota. By 1910, 3 trains made 3 round trips daily. In WWI and II many more people rode to this station because of being inducted at the fort. Tom's dad was one of 300,000 that passed through the fort as inductees in WWII era. The station was closed in 1963 and given to the historical society.
Ft. Snelling was used as a fort during the 1840's and was the western most fort in the country then. It was used as part of the Indian wars. Today we just browsed through the WWI and II exhibit in the visitor's center since Tom has been there several times and I was there with the kids when his folks lived in Mnpls.
We met Kathy, Bob and Gen for dinner and everyone went home to relax and go to bed early. We will have a busy rest of the week as others will arrive starting tomorrow for our niece's wedding Thursday night and time together Friday before everyone leaves Saturday.
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