Jamie Thingelstad

Outdoors

This bat has been flying around our cabin for the last two days. Seems odd to see a bat in full daylight flying around but I guess it isn’t that abnormal. 🦇

Small bat flying in a clear blue sky above leafy green treetops in daylight

It was a perfect day for a 9.2 mile kayak down the Mississippi from Grand Rapids.

We were going with the current so you could paddle as much as you wished, and then take a break and still float right down the river.

Map showing a 9.2-mile kayak route along the Mississippi River southeast from Grand Rapids Minnesota past La Prairie. Two people in red life jackets kayaking on a calm tree-lined river, one taking a selfie wearing a green Minnesota Wild cap and sunglasses. Smiling child in a gray life jacket paddling an orange Wilderness kayak on a calm tree-lined stretch of the Mississippi River. Blond child in a red Qatar Airways shirt and life jacket sits in a blue kayak on the Mississippi River, smiling back at the camera Two people paddling a tandem orange kayak on a calm tree-lined river stretch of the Mississippi near Grand Rapids.