Donkey!

There was a donkey fell into a well and got rescued.
Poor donkey! lol

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1422649.html

Geese!

Never seen them in wild before!
They were big and fat!
:D

You can see some trees are changing already... it's getting cold up here... :(


Little duckies thought I was there to feed them


They are coming


And even more!

Random photos

Certain hours of day, light hits living room and makes pretty patterns through the window.


Self portrait


Mike removed a tree trunk in the back yard and dug a huge hole.
We decided to bury one of my Texas license plate.
Rest in peace T52 RKX.


Sister making herself home at her "spots"

Minnesota State Fair 2007

Fairs are big deal up in North.
Especially State Fair's one of the biggest event here.
They have food (everything's fried and sticked!), music, shows, fireworks, live stocks, rodeo, carnival... you name it!
Me and Mike went both Friday and Saturday.
I ate things I never had before (elk meat balls) and saw things I've never seen before.
Can't wait to go back next year!
:D

Beautiful weather


Wonder if some of them are from Texas... :(


Even fruit's fried and sticked!


This kiddo was crying a lap before I took the picture (and that was the whole reason why I wanted his photo!)


Wheelie school


:D


Mike told me he drove the same tractor at the apple orchard where he worked through high school and college. He's a farm boy. lol




Choi's how to eat a turkey leg


They even had a robot!


It's sweet corn season



We actually paid $4.50 to see...


A spider lady


Mike's best friend Shawn, Taeyoung and Mike.
I know I'm short, but the people are taller here.


A day before, there was a young bull got out, ran into this fire hydrant and killed himself.
There was a little sign and a band aid.

Taeyoung & Sister's new home

I snapped a few.
I'll post better ones later.
:)

Moving to Minnesota

From November, 1999 to August, 2007, Texas became my second hometown.
I've met so many nice people, made great friends, had wonderful opportunities and experiences.
It was really hard to leave Houston and people.

DAY 1

This was where I lived last two years.
I really enjoyed this little apartment.


My jam packed 1993 Corolla.


I stopped by Diedrich where I worked, met a lot of good people and made great friends.


Kat and Taeyoung


Me and Pam


I took Sister to a vet to get some sleeping pills before the trip.
Thought it'll be easier for her to sleep through 10 hour each day driving for two days.
It turned out she was freaking out in the carrier, splashing water, food and littler.
I tried to clean, calm her down couple of times then gave up.
I end up letting her out.

Once she got out, she was sitting on my lap, puring, checking 18 wheeler passing by, taking naps, happy as can be.
So for the rest trip, she got to stay out, drug free.

Not happy Sister


Happy Sister


This thing freaks me out everytime I pass by


Dallas


Oklahoma


Oklahoma City


Fire in Kansas


I love Budget moving trucks :)


I booked La Quinta in Wichita for the first stop (FWI, La Quinta allows pets).
But the place was really, really hard to find.
Reason why?
Because it was "Soon to be La Quinta" hotel.


Gotta love "No guns" sign at the front door


"Soon" to be???


Sister looks uncomfortable out of the car


Sister checking my dinner from "Texas Roadhouse"


And made herself home!


DAY 2

Left hotel in Wichita, KS around 9AM.
Next big city will be Kansas City.

Cute little car on the way.
There were 4 of them together.
Must be some sort of a car club.


Sister keeps sleeping.
She was such an easy pet to travel with.


I didn't expect Kansas City to be a nice little town.
I wouldn't mind going back to visit.


Entering Missouri, entering bad weather.


Little incident in Missouri.

At Bethany, Missouri I got pulled over by a local police.
The reason was... I was on the wrong side of the road.
After gas station, I "thought" I was getting on a freeway, speeding up, saw a car coming at me over the hill (yeah... that surprised me a little bit).
It turned out it was two lane (with no center line) country road with 35mph speed limit.
But the police officer was really nice and escorted me to the freeway.

Finally start seeing sign to Minneapolis


There's nothing to say about Iowa.
That state had nothing but corn field!
Why would you want to live somewhere like that???

Minnesota!


Minneapolis downtown!


Finally, Mike's garage


Total mileage : 1,159
Average speed: 75mph
Total hour: 19 hours
Total gas price: $100.00 (roughly around 33 gallon)
Gas mileage: about 28 miles per gallon (not too bad for 14 year old car)

Texas (Houston, Dallas) - Oklahoma (Oklahoma City) - Kansas (Wichita, Kansas City) - Missouri (Bethany) - Iowa (Des Moines) -Minnesota (Minneapolis)