6/22/2018
The fun thing about a June birthday, is that Eric is typically on vacation... from motorcycling in Wisconsin, to Yellowstone National Park, and the Absaroka Mountains of Wyoming.
This year we got to celebrate Eric while spending the day with my brother, Caleb, and his family! In Chisholm, Minnesota, there's a pretty cool museum called "Minnesota Discovery Center". We started off with some lunch and a trolley ride to the historic Pillsbury mining area... beautiful view of the open pit on the way, and some pretty impressive machinery in the old town location. Mining machinery is NOT dinky!
Mining machinery isn't small...
Case in point.... Radiator.
Obviously this is a mine that doesn't use Moyer Mobile Repair... not a drop of oil on that dipstick. ;) By the way, if you need a good diesel mechanic, let Eric know... he has a guy.
Inside the Minnesota Discovery Center, we found a comprehensive geology area, and the kids had fun exploring/looming/climbing/building, while Eric and I spent a little time in the Research Center chasing down his family tree with a very helpful historian. Pretty cool! Definitely going to check out Ancestry.com further, as we could've just kept going back in time.
Next we went across the street to the giant Ironman monument... at over 4 tons and 85 feet tall, it's the 4th highest freestanding statue in the USA, built to memorialize the miners on the Iron Range.
We got the kids situated for the evening (triple babysitters built in!), and headed out for a double date dinner and hang out in the trailer... unfortunately we all died on the Oregon Trail, but had a fun time along the way! :)
- Nelina
Fantastic photos documenting your fun day! Why does Eric's cool family tree printout say Oberg Family Tree?. Enjoying the blog!
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ReplyDeleteBecause we started with mamas maiden name, and then I stayed we should do daddy’s side and we kept it on one family tree. Instead of creating a new one.