Surprisingly our night went quite well. We went to Duluth Grill after Bentleyville and ate, then we went back to our hotel and Blanche went swimming for the first time ever. It was so fun! Blanche and Matt slept together while I had a bed to myself because the room came with two full beds and there's no chance Blanche would have actually gone to sleep alone. But she slept way better than I expected.
Now to the great part: on the way back down to the cities I saw my first ever wild porcupine!!!! It's been about a seven year journey and it finally happened! I cried a little I was so happy. We were on 35 only about 40 minutes out of Duluth and I was looking for porcupines out the window as I always do and I saw one with his tail hanging down from a branch! Matt stopped but it was already too far behind us to back up on the highway so he went to the next exit to loop back. I saw it too late again to back up and Matt tried one more time! This time we stopped in time to see it. Matt added 24 extra miles doubling back on the highway so I could see it :) and then let me watch it for about five minutes before we decided we better keep going before somebody thinks we broke down. This was all after he already drove by the "porcupine hotel" as a post on Perfect Duluth Day called it, to see if we could find any, but we didn't see any there. I have the best husband ever. For real. Who would do all those things? My amazing husband, that's who! I love him.
That's all, I just had to share my amazing experience. Here's to many more porcupines in our future!
Later!
