Perfect Spring Evening

Just a beautiful day here in the Northland. In fact, I could say this was a perfect summer evening. It sometimes is not this nice in the summer (often, actually). After another soul-sucking, mind-melting day of boredom at work. Steve & I decided to hit the trail. We were on a quest to find the new section of the Superior Hiking Trail which is one of the coolest trails, in the country, really. Anyway - the trail currently runs from Two Harbors, MN to the Canadian Border. The new trail will run all the way from the west west west end of Duluth to Two Harbors, thus increasing the trail distance by another....25-40 miles (I don't really know where it 'starts' in Two Harbors). They opened one new section last summer which was awesome and now they're working on the section that is relatively close to our house. We found the trail (it's near one of our favorite x-country ski spots) and hiked for a good hour and 45 mins or so. It's a pretty healthy up & down, rugged hike that goes on granite topped ridges and down to the "valleys" below. A couple creeks, a few chipmunks, a dead deer (p.u.) and some gorgeous vistas and it turned out to be a very fun hike. I can't wait to explore more. We didn't go as far as we would've LIKED because it was getting kind of late and I needed to eat. (what else is new). We went to Taste of Saigon which happens to be my favorite for vietnamese/chinese food in town and got take out. Yummy. And there are leftovers for tomorrow.

So it was a good evening. Steve is out visiting his Dad right now and I'm about to plop on the couch and do some power-knitting while watching brainless television. If he gets back in time, we will watch an Apprentice from a couple weeks ago (on tape) and then maybe another (this week's) - it just depends. I would like to be in bed at a decent hour tonight....that never seems to happen!