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daily for communal prayer. The public is welcomed to join them.

The parish has it’s own sanctuary which is a large space under the
Abbey.

We left St. Cloud and in the early evening drove a couple miles
from our motel to the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge. It had a

7 miles one way loop road around the prairie grasslands, ponds,
and forest. We absolutely could not get out of the car due to the

hordes of deer flies and huge horse flies that we know from
experience bite like fire. They threw themselves against the

windows trying to get in. Hitchcock should be alive to make a
movie on this phenomenon. It was a pretty place to spend the

evening and we saw many beautiful birds.

Another gourmet meal at Perkin’s Family Restaurant and off to

bed.

THE MALL OF AMERICA, BLOOMINGTON, MN.

Friday - The people of this area say they have two seasons –

Winter and Road Work. That’s for certain!! We have never seen
such bottlenecks and complete confusion on major roadways ever.

To avoid that chaos, we decided to take the back roads towards

the Mall and took a couple hours to visit The Minnesota
Landscape Arboretum. We know you’re getting tired of garden

stories, but each place has been very distinctive in size, formality
of presentation and the types of botany presented.

This place had a 3-mile drive through. Their most outstanding

features were the great variety of different species of trees and
the rose garden. Adjacent to the main building was a formal

garden. In that garden was an area of Dahlia plantings that blew

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