Duluth, Minnesota

Spent most of the day in and around Duluth, MN. sightseeing and checking out a golf course. The place has some mighty fine old homes, or should I say mansions up on the hill sides of Duluth. Yes Duluth reminded me at times today of San Francisco with the steep hills going up from down town and away from the Lake (Lake Superior). There were many very large homes on these hill sizes that all looked to have 4-5 baths, 6-8 bedrooms, that kind of large and of big old stone and brick some incredibly layered shake roofs. Superior is much smaller and more old town looking and right now undergoing some down town development and remodeling and refurbishing....................... Even being where we are on Lake Superior, the far western finger of the lake and on the tip of that finger it's still looks very large. Looking at the map Superior looks to be the biggest of the Great Lakes, it's very large that's for sure. Speaking of fingers we ate lunch at a place called Pickwick's on the Lake or overlooking the lake near down town Duluth. For an app we had deep fried Walleye Fingers with a wasabi sauce with just the right amount of spice. Walleye seems to be the fish of choice in the area, fingers were great but I never ordered Walleye because I thought they were so full of bones and I hate boney fish. The fillet fingers were just right in by book................ Might play nine tomorrow morning, Bev feels up to it and we're not playing with Allan and Kathy until Tuesday or Wednesday so the practice would do Bev good. No executive course's in the Midwest I guess, couldn't find one in Iowa and asked at the pro shop today and they said none that they knew of in the area here. I guess out there in Arizona where all us old folks and executives live they have a lot of them because we need a quick round now and again and a short course............................. They have a casino in down town Duluth, yes right smack dab down town in an old 3 story building and you know us we just had to give it a look see. Good thing we did, after a rough start Bev ended up winning right at $100 and Mikey won $525 so the kitty grows and that's a good thing. In and out and take the winnings is our new motto, don't wait until you give it all back, stick and move! It's been a real good trip in that respect so far, knock on wood so I did.