Saturday we went to Mathiessen State Park for the pow wow. It was really very crowded. Last year the attendance was sparce, the parks up there were flooded, and only a few people and vendors were there - but this year they made up for it. We stopped on the way at Delaney's - you remember, the restaurant we usually hit at least once when we go up there - and Karen decided we needed these rings as a souvenir of our day. It was either those or tattoos she said, so we indulged her desire for acrylic rings! (Look how short my fingers are compared to theirs - hmmm!) Anyway, we had a great time - laughing at lunch until I thought we might actually be asked to leave Delaney's, except that I think all the older people around us began laughing, too, so I think the laughter became contagious. I don't hear well out of my left ear, so really that's usually all it takes for me to say something ignorant and totally unrelated to the current conversation and we're done - laughter all around. So we had fun, ate some wonderful fry bread, purchased a few fun things and another pow wow over. At one of the vendor's boothes, they had this - whatever you call it - not really a statue, not really a mannequin, but - well I didn't know what to call him and Tracey needed a rest, so she visited him for a moment. Kinda creepy. Tomorrow I'll show you the favorite purchase (at my house anyway). I'll try to remember to photograph it tonight.