Hinkley, MN - Duluth, MN

Happy Trails to us.  Today we rode on a bicycle path the entire 80 miles to Duluth.  Fabulous. In the morning we stopped for breakfast at a diner and then continued on the beautiful trail for the rest of the day.  Once in Duluth we went to Fin fest and compared the the last Fin fest I went to in Marquette, MI this one was quite sub-par.  We are all pretty excited about the festival and we walk about 18 blocks and then on a 1/4 mile raised indoor sidewalk (that was at least 85 degrees) and walk into the "festival" which has about 10 people there in a huge room and a polka band. 

We all started laughing at this situation and took our seats.  Then the polka announcer says "And now we'll have our traditional Finnish tango" (what?) Everyone clears the floor so Jessie (bike and builder) and Christopher (B&B'er) take full advantage of this and decide to improvise the tango with all the moves (like ones you've seen on dancing with the stars) including a lift and a point when Jessie spun away from him and he literally crawled to her the length of the dance floor.  We were laughing extremely hard by the time they'd done thier finishing dip for the third time and the polka band decided to do another round.  The song ended up lasting at least 7 minutes and was the longest song played of the night. 

Oh Duluth Fin Fest...