Golfing at Giant's Ridge--The Legend. Hole #17
Hole #17---Par 3...you have to hit it over the water---we all made it! For the guys, 216 yards to clear!
Hole #11--Another Par 3 that requires you to hit over the water.
What a beautiful weekend to celebrate this country's birthday. Our good friends, Jeb and Kaylan Wilson joined us for the long weekend and we had a lot of fun.
Hole #17---Par 3...you have to hit it over the water---we all made it! For the guys, 216 yards to clear!
Hole #11--Another Par 3 that requires you to hit over the water.
What a beautiful weekend to celebrate this country's birthday. Our good friends, Jeb and Kaylan Wilson joined us for the long weekend and we had a lot of fun.Jeb and Kaylan arrived Thursday night and the girls made dinner. We had 4 cheese maccaroni and Black and Bleu burgers on the grill. Dinner was great. Then we decided to head to downtown Biwabik (a true metropolis I tell ya) to a place called Giants Pub. Well, what do you know, they had a class reunion there with a live band. It was hilarious. It was the Class of 1979, the year Nicole was born and Kaylan not even thought of, but we had fun listening to their music and "mingling with the locals". Here is the best thing about Biwabik, I bought the first round of drinks and the total came to $12.00. Gotta love the small towns! Go Class of 1979, we'll see you soon!
On Friday we went to our favorite spa in Virginia called The Pebble. We all 4 had massages, then headed to lunch at the Quarry out on the patio. From there we were off to The Wilderness, a golf course in Tower, MN that was built by the Fort Bois Indian Tribe. They built a beautiful golf course cut out of the woods and along the shores of Lake Vermillion. It was right up there with a course near our hometown called Dacotah Ridge. I suppose the lake up here made it a little more scenic and the trees were just beautiful. I would recommend that course to anyone.
After golf we had dinner at their very Frank Lloyd Wright clubhouse (it was very cool). Then it was on to "Hairball". Each night this weekend there was a Town Festival in all of the surrounding towns. They all go all out with a parade, fireworks and street dance. Where we grew up in Springfield it used to be called Riverside Days or Crazy Days, well in Tower, MN it was called Riverfest. They had a band that is popular around the Twin Cities called Hairball. They were quite good, they play nothing but BIG HAIR 80's music. The lead singer changes costumes constantly from Bon Jovi, to Twisted Sister, to Guns N Roses, to Motley Crue, you get the idea, big hair 80's. The people watching is always the most fun for me as people really get out of control. Wives are fighting with their husbands for drinking too much, people are stumbling all over the place and it all makes me giggle. It was outside the cool bar I showed you from week's back called the Iron Ore Bar. It was an old brewery back in the day and is still a very cool place. We froze a little bit as temps got down to the 40's during the concert, but the music was good, costumes and band quite funny and people watching excellent.
On Saturday morning, the 4th of July we had plans to play golf at The Legend, one of Giants Ridge's great courses. We teed off at 9 a.m. and the weather was perfect. We enjoyed the day and then had plans to take the pontoon (rented from the Villas at Giants Ridge) When we got home from golfing we got the cooler ready and the grill ready to take out on the pontoon and when I went to the Villa office to rent it they had bad news. The crappy pontoon was broken down. Apparently the people that rented it on Friday were stranded in the middle of the lake and had to be towed in, so no pontoon on Saturday. It was a bummer because it was such a nice day, but we made the best of it and spent the afternoon on the beach with our grill and cooler.
Saturday night we went to watch fireworks in Virginia, they were pretty good for a small town and we had dinner at The Whistling Bird. This is in Gilbert, MN and is quite good, but very pricey for a small town. Lastly we finished the night in Biwabik where they had a street dance with live music (3 different bands playing at the same time at 3 different bars). Jeb has a lot of friends that are from "the range" so he and Kaylan spent time with them while Nicole and I found a nice spot to listen to some music. On Sunday we got up and had breakfast on the Quarry patio and again the weather was perfect. The Wilson's headed back to Hudson and Nicole and I spent the afternoon lounging on the beach again. Lakes are sure nice to live by, I can see what the fuss is about. I hope everyone else was able to get outside and enjoy the beautiful weather.
On Friday we went to our favorite spa in Virginia called The Pebble. We all 4 had massages, then headed to lunch at the Quarry out on the patio. From there we were off to The Wilderness, a golf course in Tower, MN that was built by the Fort Bois Indian Tribe. They built a beautiful golf course cut out of the woods and along the shores of Lake Vermillion. It was right up there with a course near our hometown called Dacotah Ridge. I suppose the lake up here made it a little more scenic and the trees were just beautiful. I would recommend that course to anyone.
After golf we had dinner at their very Frank Lloyd Wright clubhouse (it was very cool). Then it was on to "Hairball". Each night this weekend there was a Town Festival in all of the surrounding towns. They all go all out with a parade, fireworks and street dance. Where we grew up in Springfield it used to be called Riverside Days or Crazy Days, well in Tower, MN it was called Riverfest. They had a band that is popular around the Twin Cities called Hairball. They were quite good, they play nothing but BIG HAIR 80's music. The lead singer changes costumes constantly from Bon Jovi, to Twisted Sister, to Guns N Roses, to Motley Crue, you get the idea, big hair 80's. The people watching is always the most fun for me as people really get out of control. Wives are fighting with their husbands for drinking too much, people are stumbling all over the place and it all makes me giggle. It was outside the cool bar I showed you from week's back called the Iron Ore Bar. It was an old brewery back in the day and is still a very cool place. We froze a little bit as temps got down to the 40's during the concert, but the music was good, costumes and band quite funny and people watching excellent.
On Saturday morning, the 4th of July we had plans to play golf at The Legend, one of Giants Ridge's great courses. We teed off at 9 a.m. and the weather was perfect. We enjoyed the day and then had plans to take the pontoon (rented from the Villas at Giants Ridge) When we got home from golfing we got the cooler ready and the grill ready to take out on the pontoon and when I went to the Villa office to rent it they had bad news. The crappy pontoon was broken down. Apparently the people that rented it on Friday were stranded in the middle of the lake and had to be towed in, so no pontoon on Saturday. It was a bummer because it was such a nice day, but we made the best of it and spent the afternoon on the beach with our grill and cooler.
Saturday night we went to watch fireworks in Virginia, they were pretty good for a small town and we had dinner at The Whistling Bird. This is in Gilbert, MN and is quite good, but very pricey for a small town. Lastly we finished the night in Biwabik where they had a street dance with live music (3 different bands playing at the same time at 3 different bars). Jeb has a lot of friends that are from "the range" so he and Kaylan spent time with them while Nicole and I found a nice spot to listen to some music. On Sunday we got up and had breakfast on the Quarry patio and again the weather was perfect. The Wilson's headed back to Hudson and Nicole and I spent the afternoon lounging on the beach again. Lakes are sure nice to live by, I can see what the fuss is about. I hope everyone else was able to get outside and enjoy the beautiful weather.
Nicole teeing off at the signature hole #3 at The Legend. Notice the Bear Paw, that is one big sand trap!
Jeb and Jason
Jeb and Kaylan Wilson
Teeing off on Hole #17 over the water.
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