We had to be at the airport by 16:30 today to meet Valerie’s parents and board our shuttle bus to Forest City. After checking out of our hotel around 12:00, we ate lunch at a nearby Vietnamese restaurant for what we assume will be our last bowl of pho in quite a while. With a few hours to spare, we walked to the nearby Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and admired the free art. We picked up 4 banh mi from the same restaurant, picked up our luggage, and rode the light rail back to the airport.

The Great Alaskan Holidays technicians wanted us to “dry camp” the first night in our RV so that we can detect any major problems before leaving the Winnebago factory. This is the first time any of us have rented an RV in our adult lifetimes, so we had a lot of questions for the technicians. Many of our fellow campers were very friendly and helped show us the ropes.

Valerie was very cold the first night. Since the Great Alaskan team didn’t have additional blankets available, we will need to pick up more blankets at Wal-Mart tomorrow.