Our U.P.Vacation-Day 8

Day 8, Sunday, July 28, is a traveling day for us.  We fly from Marquette to Detroit, change planes; fly to Minneapolis/St. Paul, have a two-hour layover, change planes; fly direct to DFW/Dallas! 

It is 50 degrees and misting rain this morning when we awoke at 4:45 a.m.  Drove the 15 miles out to the Airport, turned in our Rental Car keys/paperwork in a night drop slot, ended up having to check my small carry-on bag because of the 10 oz. jar of thimbleberry jelly I bought yesterday as a souvenir! Homeland Security would not let me carry it onto the plane!  Let's see, we paid $17 for the jelly and $25 for the checked bag!  That's some expensive jelly, but I mainly wanted it for the jar/label!  Oh well, it's only vacation money!

When we arrived in Detroit, to get to our next plane to Minneapolis/ St. Paul, we had to go back thru that tunnel that goes under the runways.  This time we were not having to run like we did last Sunday on our way to Marquette, so I was able to snap some photos of the changing lights in the long tunnel.  There is very soothing music and sounds as the lights change colors.

It's kind of surreal as we walk along thru the tunnel that connects incoming and outgoing terminals.

We make it safely to Minneapolis/St. Paul and have plenty of time to walk around and find us something for lunch.  I seldom see my name (spelled with an "E") anywhere we travel, however here it is in the Airport!

Uneventful flight on the last leg of our journey home today.  My friends Mary Ann, Tony, and Ellie came back to DFW today to give us a ride home.  We stopped in Terrell at Dos Aces Mexican Restaurant for some good Mexican food, something we missed this past week.

When we left home last week, our garden was looking pretty "tired", and our local weather forecast was calling for hot and dry days ahead, so we just figured the garden would be all shriveled up and dead when we got home.  Well it rained while we were away and the garden has come back to life (somewhat)!

As you can see we picked some "monster squash"!  There are more piled up on the other end as well!  So we are sharing most of what we are picking.  We have two rows of purple-hull peas that just stared producing peas about the time we got back from vacation, so we are shelling and freezing those.

Our crabapple tree was loaded with fruit when we came home!

A couple of days after we got home, Tom's brother Mark, and wife Janie came to see us!  Janie went out and picked up a bag full of those crabapples to make jelly!  We enjoyed having Mark and Janie come for a visit!  They brought along their new puppy, "Queenie".

We always enjoy going away on vacations, but no matter where we go, or how much we see, or how much we do, there is no place in the whole wide world quite like "home"!  We viewed this spectacular sunset right from our own deck the day after we came home!