A couple of miles drive from the hotel to the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame. Mostly it was people I’d not heard of bar; Eddie Cochrane, Judy Garland and Prince. They had a drawing of the Indian “Sleepy Eye” after whom the town from yesterday was indirectly named.
We went to see the World’s largest ball of twine in Darwin. It’s next to Werid Alley which would explain why some musicians who were fans of Weird Al Yankovic where there. They were travelling down to play some music in New Ulm (where we’d just come from). They were waiting for the mayor (Josh) to turn up as he was going to let them in an “smell the twine” but they had to go. We hung around for ten minutes but no mayor, and no twine sniffing.
And then another Big Thing. The twenty-eight foot Big Ole.
A symbol of Alexandria's Viking pride -- the town believes it was visited by Norsemen in 1362 -- Big Ole was built in early 1965.
