Today was a rambling adventure through the cities. We visited a coffee shop, a hardware store, lunch at a great Vietnamese restaurant. We then headed to a local neighborhood and visited a stationary store and found a very cool independent bookstore. Turns out it's owned by Garrison Keillor...yes Dad, we will take you there when you come to visit.
We stopped by a couple of art galleries. Visited an old record store - Electric Fetus - vinyl and cd's. From there we headed to a woodworker's store and then stopped at Moto-I.
Moto-I is a local sake brewery and restaurant. I am not as big a fan of sake, so I had a great beer - Lift Bridge Farm Girl from a Stillwater brewery. Steve had the sake. They had several TVs on - Japanese TV, TV Food Network, and of course the NCAA tourney.
Japanese TV became very interesting when the Sumo wrestling started. It was quite interesting to actually watch the matches. The wrestler's legs are actually quite muscular. One of the workers was very in to Sumo and was explaining the rules and her knowledge while we watched.
Quite the Saturday - Sumo and Sake.
We walked around the area a bit and visited a few independent stores and then headed home. All in all a great first full day of spring!
2 comments:
Quite the Saturday - Sumo and Sake.
I learn something new every day.
I'd like to visit the Garrison Keillor bookstore plus a couple of the other places you went to on Saturday. Great blog.
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