Red River State Park- East Grand Forks, Minnesota

OK- so here's a few more pictures of the Wylie Park Campground...
We biked around the park searching for geocaches. We searched for 3 and found 3! The first one was fooling us with some GPS bounce, and then the mosquito armies tried to attack Caleb and I ... so we had to run back to the safety of the bike path. Chris fought off the swarms and found the first one for us! The next two caches were micros, which are always a bit tricky. The last one we found Caleb is holding between his fingers. That's how small this magnetic micro cache is!
Here is a picture of Wylie Lake... how nice of them to give us our own lake! We saw a few pike being pulled out of the water, but we didn't have time to get out our poles.
With this gigantic American flag in the center, each state's flag lines the sidewalk. What a great country we live in, and an early Happy 4th of July to all of our friends and family!
Tuesday and Wednesday night brought us to Red River State Park in East Grand Forks, Minnesota. Cost per night: $24 +$5 daily vehicle fee. We can see North Dakota over the river from our campsite. This is a hidden gem of a park just a short 2 miles from I-29. According to the information, this campground is located where many of the 560 homes that were destroyed in East Grand Forks in the 1997 flood were once located. The property was redesigned as a state park and recreation area. They are currently adding more sites to the property. The Red River is very high and many of the trees are in the water. According to the weather station, we are still under a flood watch until the river crests. This is a great stop to take advantage of the many services in the greater Grand Forks area.... we got the oil changed in the truck along with the fuel filter and made a Super Target stop to reload our grocery supply. Caleb is having a great time at this park playing with some of the other children camped here.

Thursday we will head into Canada... stopping first in Baudette to pick up our new converter. Hopefully it will be at the post office waiting for us. Then we will cross the border and make our way into our campsite in Sioux Narrows. We will get be able to get out the loungers and relax... we plan on staying for two weeks!

Good News!- I paid for a day's worth of wi-fi at the Wylie Park Campground and was determined to get my new EnV3 phone tethered for internet. I searched and found a driver for my phone online. This may sound like an easy thing, but it is not "officially" known to be a driver that works... so even the technicians from Verizon weren't able to help me out. That's why the internet is so great! People who are tech wizards can tell the rest of us what to do! .... So I'm posting via my EnV3! However, I did find out in speaking with a Verizon representative, that I can't use this feature while in Canada even though I have the nationwide + Canada plan. Some of our friends do have the luxury of internet at their cabins, so I will try to make a blogpost.

We wish everyone a safe and Happy 4th of July!