Come To The Land Of Ice And Snow...

It was my first NFL game ever. And (of course) it was the worst traveling day of late 2012. My daughter and I took part in a KHAK Radio promotional deal to attend the Minnesota Vikings/Chicago Bears football game at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Sunday, December 9, 2012. This was my Christmas present from her. The cost included bus fare, an all-you-can-eat brunch buffet before the game and two tickets to the contest. Our bus driver steered us skillfully from Iowa into Minnesota, where it soon began to snow heavily. In the top image, daughter Holly poses in falling snow outside the Metrodome at the corner of Chicago Avenue and South 6th Street, 45 minutes before game time. The bottom image, which includes our parked Windstar bus at left, looks southeast from just outside Hubert's Sports Bar & Grill at 6th Street N and North 1st Avenue. A total of 10.5 inches of snow would fall this day in the Minneapolis area. This Christmas present from my daughter was a good one as the Vikings defeated the Bears in the game, 21-14. A safe return home actually made the abundance of snow an enhancement of the experience.