Ann dropped Patti off in time for she and Dick to go to friends' house to join them for a Women's Basket professional game: The MN Lynx and the NY Liberty. Our friend Naomi has been a season ticket holder for a number of years, and she knew all of the tricks to have a wonderful experience. We were joined by their daughter, Anna, and then her wife Diane joined us later for lunch.
Besides the logistics of going to a game where 1000's of others are going, it was great to figure of a secret parking spot at a very low prices, and then get oriented in how to enjoy everything from the warm ups, to cheering the team on in their electric slide dance when they won. It is amazing at how loud the crowd is when they get riled up.
The game was exciting and both Dick and Patti knew many of the players on both teams. We are fans of this basketball league, but there are no teams near us. We especially enjoyed seeing some of the stars who are so terrific. Some of the shots were crazy good. And, in the end, the Lynx won which was very fun. Everyone was of their feet for a long time. It was a great event.
On the walk from the Target Center to where we would eat lunch, Patti had to stop by the statue of Mary Tyler Moore from her time from 1970-1977 as the star of The Mary Tyler Moore Show which was set in Minneapolis.
The lunch was nice, again getting caught up. We had a great server and enjoyed the food. Diane rode her bike downtown and back home. And she avoided all of the traffic. Anna just graduated from college and is headed off to be a Fulbright Scholar, so it was great to hear about her plans. Always nice to get together with long time friends.
We were in Minneapolis where so much happened this past winter during the invasion of the city by ICE. Sadly two residents were killed by ICE during this painful time. The residents of the city have honored both Renee Good and Alex Pretti with spontaneous memorials at the locations where they died. The city had protected the memorials by routing traffic away from them. We found each of them and took time to think about what had happened. It was really sobering! As we left each one we had quiet conversation about how we had experienced the time at the memorials. Such a real mood shift from earlier in the day.
Then, we went home to bed. Tomorrow would be another busy day with friends.
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