And - boy - am I glad I didn't try to make them yesterday or today. Yesterday, although almost all forecasts were predicting sunny and nice, it clouded up in the morning and we had a couple of solid downpours. Luckily, the five of us (did I mention we had three friends in from Baltimore this weekend?) weren't moving too quickly, so by the time we left home to go out it had pretty much stopped.
We spent our day bopping around in Saint Paul and Minneapolis, then went out to dinner last night to a restaurant on Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis. By the time we were walking to and from dinner, there was a wonderful breeze and it was a beautiful night.
Then came the humidity. It started out only a little annoying. We debated closing up the house and turning on the A/C, but didn't want to freeze out everyone sleeping in the basement. Of course, at 2:47 this morning, when our one overly-sensitive smoke alarm decided to go off because it was sensing too much of "something" in the air, that was a clue that the humidity was getting kind of high.
(For the record, we have multiple smoke alarms in the house. The one in question goes off when food gets too fragrant. It goes off when you open the bathroom door after a shower. And, now, it apparently goes off when the relative humidity reaches 72%.)
Playing tourist out around Minneapolis today was a bit uncomfortable. "Sticky" is probably the best way to describe the weather. The second best way would be "August-like."
This could be a very interesting summer.
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