Riverboat dinner cruise

 The St. Croix river runs between Minnesota and Wisconsin and the town of Stillwater, Minnesota is a quaint little river town with nice dining, cute shops and activities on the river, including this dinner cruise on one of the riverboats. 

 

 We boarded the Avalon, ready for a nice evening cruise.

 

 The meal was served buffet style and the food was tasty and plentiful.

 

 We chose a seat by the windows.

 

 We could also watch some activity on the other riverboats (before we started the cruise) - and near us was a wedding party boarding.  What a fun wedding reception that would be!

 

The water in the river was higher then normal. 

 

Here is a view of our dining room.  There was dining and a full buffet on the first and second floors and open-air table seating on the top/third floor.

 We had a fun dixie-land style quartet playing during the evening.  They roamed the ship.

 

 More view of the diners.

 

 They added a lot to the evening!

 

 After dinner we enjoyed the remainer of the cruise on the top deck. The weather was perfect.

 

 It was a nice night for sailing.

 

 The riverboat with the wedding reception. 

 

 After being asked to take pictures for two different groups of strangers, I was happy to have them use my camera and take a picture of the two of us together. 

 

 Following the cruise, we checked in a motel in St. Paul - on the Mississippi River.  And we had this wonderful corner room!

 

 Our view from our room was great.  We woke up the next morning and took a brisk walk in the town and went for breakfast at the iconic Mickey's diner.  I forgot to bring my camera for a picture of it but I copied one to share here.  You may have seen this diner in a movie; I can't remember which movie it was in, maybe more then one, actually.
 

A nice little weekend getaway.