It was a fun birthday this year as we began our roadtrip. The boys are so big now, but they still enjoy all the inside jokes and traditions we have from many years of road trips. This dedicated family time is the best birthday gift!
We packed almost everything last night so it was fairly painless to get on the road about 8:15 am. My flowers are all blooming right now, so I took a few pictures so I can compare when we get back home in a couple weeks.
Our main stop today was to UW-Stout for a college tour for Carson. He is interested in doing something with technology and UW-Stout has pretty much everything that he is considering-video or audio tech, animation, graphic design, video game design, coding. The campus was very impressive and they have so many partnerships to help students enter the workforce when they graduate.
When we were organizing for the trip, the only tour on the University’s schedule was 9 am, and there was no way we were going to leave early enough to make that. Admissions was able to set a tour up in the afternoon specifically for Carson.
When we got there, the college had a personalized welcome sign! We watched a presentation about the University and then a student guide gave us a tour around the campus. We talked to a Professor that was just setting up a brand new 3D printer that prints metal and showed us a very intricate gear within a gear that was completely 3D printed. Fascinating! Carson said the whole tour experience was “Cool!” (He’s a man of few words, LOL). If he decides to go to UW-Stout, it looks like he will have a great experience.
We had 4 more hours of driving after our tour and made it to a hotel in Park Rapids, MN which is in the north central part of the state just as the sun set. Tomorrow we are going to the headwaters of the Mississippi River, and also to the Ronald Reagan Minute Man Missile Historic Site.
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Sounds like you’re off to a great start!!❤️