Minnesota officially has 11,842 lakes over 10 acres in size! Flying in was a crazy quilt of lakes, created by glaciers during the last ice age. Or they could have been created by Paul Bunyan, the lumberjack and his pet, Babe the blue ox. Paul was so big that he ate 40 bowls of porridge a day and used wagon wheels for buttons on his plaid shirt. The footprints that he and Babe made filled with water and became the lakes of Minnesota.
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- East Gull Lake grass field airstrip measures only 2,618 ft. long. It’s right next to the driving range, so we taxied over some errant golf balls.
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- Madden’s resort on Gull Island, family owned for three generations!
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- Hole #1 – let the betting begin. We bet Nassau, total putts, medal, match, KPs and most improved.
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- Feeling very Edith Ann.
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- The old bridge at the Classic Golf Course at Maddens, one of the top 100 public golf courses in America in 2003.
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- Jesse Ventura shot a 97 on the day the Classic opened. We played better, but he might have been a little busy with the whole governor thing.
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- Minnesota salad: Wild rice, craisins, scallions, brussel sprouts, kale, green and red cabbage, broccoli and roasted pumpkin seeds. The digestive equivalent of swallowing a bottle brush!
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- Croquet (thanks to the 17th century British) was the first outdoor sport to embrace equality, with both sexes playing on an equal footing.
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- Goldfinches loved the tall grasses and reeds near the shoreline.
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