We took a trip to SE North Dakota, on Friday to see my folks, as they had some items they want us to pickup to bring back to Minnesota, and we have not been to the farm I grew up on for a while, the two of us, and if we didn't go before Wooden Nichols opens, it would have been next winter. 
We left from Brainerd late Friday afternoon, and we had the trailer in tow to haul a bunch of stuff. We were driving into snow which had fallen there last night, but we didn't hit that till we were only 50 miles form the Lisbon area. But we saw lots of fields that looked like lakes along the road.
We got to the gravel road going to my Mom and Dad's and here is what we saw, but they told us the road is open, but to stay in the middle of the road due to the high water on both sides and the shoulders on the road were soft! No kidding...
There was about 4-5 inches of snow on the road along with water right up to almost the top of the road, and on the other end just a 1/2 mile from the farm, part of the road had collapsed and about 2/3 of it was still god if you didn't mind a good bump, from the dip in the road. Didn't stop for that picture...But we arrived safely, but needless to say Crystalie didn't like it!
We saw this herd of Buffalo and we stopped right on the highway, no one was coming as we were in North Dakota and it had just started to snow there, but they were walking around through the water looking for some green sprigs of grass exposed by the melting snow.
We did also arrive to some smiling faces and also some homemade chili and sandwiches, and angel food cake with fresh whip cream and strawberries, thanks Mom and Dad!
There was about 4-5 inches of snow on the road along with water right up to almost the top of the road, and on the other end just a 1/2 mile from the farm, part of the road had collapsed and about 2/3 of it was still god if you didn't mind a good bump, from the dip in the road. Didn't stop for that picture...But we arrived safely, but needless to say Crystalie didn't like it! We saw this herd of Buffalo and we stopped right on the highway, no one was coming as we were in North Dakota and it had just started to snow there, but they were walking around through the water looking for some green sprigs of grass exposed by the melting snow.
We did also arrive to some smiling faces and also some homemade chili and sandwiches, and angel food cake with fresh whip cream and strawberries, thanks Mom and Dad!
More to come!
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Sounds interesting! The buffalo are cool! We are going to try to make time on our trip out to stop at the big buffalo in ND, Rebekah's never been there and I don't remember it myself.