Hanging in Minnesota

Having made it to the Twin Cities we immediately started looking up old friends and acquaintances. Robin’s good friends, Priscilla and Roger Starn, were based here. Sadly, Roger passed during the last year, but we were able to locate Priscilla and visited here early in our time here. We hope to be able to visit her several times more while we are here.

My brother Jerry sent me an email showing him at the Arizona Cardinals Training Camp. We hadn’t even thought about that, but we knew that the Minnesota Vikings new training facility had been built in Eagan, our old stomping grounds for a couple of decades.

So we scoped it out and found that Vikings Training Camp was in process through the month of August, and that the public was welcome. We googled Vikings Training Camp and found that you could get tickets to see them practice pretty much through the entire month. Seeing first hand an old and hopefully not washed up Kirk Cousins was a treat.

The facility was impressive. The training fields were nicely banked by reserved seating that gave the interested a bird’s eye view of the action. Since I wear a Randy Moss jersey, there was no chance that I was going to get to see my jersey mate. However, the Woman was able to see her jersey mate, Stefon Diggs, make some pretty impressive moves on the turf. All in all, it was a fun afternoon.

While the facility was impressive, the comfort of the attendees was meh. There really was not much for food choices, even through the practice session started well before the lunch hour. Beverage accommodations were bare bones – if you didn’t really care for a Miller or Coors Lite, you were pretty much out of luck. And even the on-site Vikings Museum, which you would think you could visit after having ponied up for a seat ticket and a parking ticket, cost another $15 each – hopefully they got their pretty pound out of us. The only good news was that the Woman dot to see how she sized up against her jersey mate.

Talk to you soon.