An Awesome View of Life

This past Friday the 13th was spent with my brother in our hometown of New Ulm, MN.  We were a bit early for our planned adventure so added a flight of sour beers at The Starkellar.  This is a pretty cool place. This was our planned stop.  Happy Hour on the Deck at The Grand Center for the Arts and Culture.  Mr. Lee Weber was amazing.  Love the atmosphere here at The Grand. My goal is to get the City of New Ulm to convert some of the empty storefronts in the downtown area into some kind of fun hotel.  It would be so wonderful to be able to take advantage of the amazing music scene downtown New Ulm has going on and not have to either drive home or to the other end of town to one of the few hotels in town.  I would have to imagine the downtown bars would like to see the same thing?

Stairway to... My first evening of a long weekend visit to my hometown, New Ulm, MN.  Class reunion weekend. Finally.   When I first got here I had a message on ancestry.com telling me new information had been added about my great grandmother Anna Olson Langdon.  My cousin Mark had added a copy of her newspaper obituary.  We have been looking for more information on her sister Susie for awhile and her married name along with her husband's name were listed.  Of course I couldn't just wait until later (like next week) to start my research - I had to start immediately.  Which meant it was almost too late to take any photos once I looked up from my laptop. This is the spiral staircase leading to the top of Hermann the German - in what little sunset there was. And the mosquitoes were horrible. But I did find tons of great information.

  Incapable...   of choosing only one.  So I posted all four of them.  I'll let you pick a favorite. Remember you can click on the photo to make it full size.  I doubt that will help you choose just one but...   These were taken early this morning in German Park in New Ulm, MN . Beautiful park.  Beautiful city.