Nisswa!

After stuffing ourselves to the gills on Thanksgiving, Mel and I decided to head up to Nisswa, MN with my parents and my Brother and his fiance. Every year on the day after Thanksgiving the town of Nisswa lights up for Christmas. The whole town is decorated in lights. They have carolers, bon fires, vender's with food, and fireworks! It's quite the good time.

We stayed at Daggets Resort in Crosslake, MN about 15 mins from Nisswa. The place was huge. Its actually a time share that they rent out when no ones using it. There was a full kitchen, living room, three bedrooms, two baths, fireplace, and washer and dryer. So the 6 of us were quite comfortable.

On Friday night we tried to eat at Zorbaz, in Crosslake. We were all very excited because Zorbaz pizza is some of the best around. Well, when we got there, we walked in and found that they were doing some remodeling in the basement, thought nothing of it and ordered our food. When our food arrived we all dug in. I was the first to notice that something was a miss. It tasted a little funny, almost mint like. What could it be. Well, they were varnishing some wood in the lower level of the restaurant and the over spray had gotten into all of the dough for the pizza. That wasn't mint it was varnish! Needless to say we got our money back and headed to Nisswa for the lights. There were thousands of people there for this night. We tried to do some shopping but the stores where packed. We went into the art gallery of wildlife artist, Jerry Raedeke. We got to meet him and my parents purchased one of his prints. It was an Artist Proof and he actually drew a little scene on the glass that went along with the print, right in front of us. Cool! A one of a kind!
We made our way up to Walker, MN on Saturday. We spend the good part of the day up there doing a lot of Christmas shopping. We checked out Reeds which is a pretty cool sportsman store. Then walked up and down Main St, going in and out of all the shops.

Saturday night we tried Zorbaz again. This time we went to the one on Gull Lake, and success! An outstanding pizza!

After getting most of our Christmas shopping done up north we headed home today. (Sunday) On the way home Mel and I decided that if we didn't get a Christmas tree today there would be no other suitable time to get one. So we flew home, unpacked the car and headed out to Hampton to cut down our very first real tree as a couple!