We're off to see the Wizard - a day trip to Grand Rapids, MN
A visit to the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, MN, has been on my wish list for a long time, and we finally made it up there. My friend and I took one of our road trips, and she planned a few diversions on the way there and back, including the Dala horse in Mora, the Hull Rust Mine View in Hibbing on the way home, as well as the mass grave in Moose Lake for victms of the 1918 fires that swept through Moose Lake, Cloquet and many other towns in the north. It was one of those beautiful summer days that makes you forget about winter in Minnesota. We arrived at the museum around 11, and immediately we were smiling and laughing at all the cutouts that greet you, where you can stick your head through and be the Tin Man, the Lion, a witch or Dorothy. The museum is adjacent to the Children's Discovery Museum, so if you come with kids, you could spend a couple of hours. Even though the big attraction for most of us was probably the Wizard of Oz connection, Judy Garland had an exte