Minnesota Marine Art Museum

                   



              Our homeschool group took a trip to the Minnesota Marine Art Museum.
      I highly recommend a visit there if you have not been. What an outstanding little gem we have so close to us. There are five galleries filled with gorgeous art including an American gallery and impressionist gallery. The staff and volunteers were well versed and did an impressive job with our diverse group. Check out the website to see what exhibits they have as they do change. We were most impressed with the Picasso, Van Gogh, Renoir, and Monet. Loved the Hudson River School  and the Bierstadt. What a marvelous collection!


                     These students were pretty excited about the bus ride also!

 

Inside looking out

Monet!

                                             

La Crosse & Winona Road Trip

Road Trip!

We stayed here. Nice little water park, clean rooms, and it's on the river.

Best Western Riverfront Hotel

                                       Dinner at Texas Roadhouse.

Best filet mignon EVER. Perfectly cooked at mid rare, and the peppercorn sauce is sublime.

A meat message

Back to the hotel for swimming

And tv. We haven't had television in over 7 years. Fun to watch, but loath the commercials. Especially  the mundane pharmaceutical ones. 

                          Getting a late night snack. Nothing very healthy in this vending machine.

Morning coffee

Our breakfast table

Pi

 An absolute must stop at The Pearl

Filling her bag and visiting with Holly.

Winona

Love this place!

Charlie, of Hardt's music

Extensive selection of books!

Lunch at Cha Chis ( the Thai place was closed)

Pretty darn amazing!

Checking out prices for ear piercing.

Drat! Closed on Monday. Must plan another trip there soon!

Floating houses. There is a story about them here. http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/10/23/finding-minnesota-quirky-scenic-latsch-island/

they also have a FB page https://www.facebook.com/pages/latsch-island/219935716860

Floating house

Winona Road Trip

Lunch at Little Thailand

Salad Roll with spicy peanut sauce

                                                         Sa koo sai moo

Tom kha gai

Pad rad na

Ka paw moo. SUPER SPICY! I was nearly crying at the table!

We visited the Basilica of Saint Stanislaus Kostka

and were lucky enough to go inside.

absolutely beautiful!

The infamous Bleodow's bakery

Train station

Loved this music store!

The Co-op

The fruit store

Where I found Johnny's!

On the way home.