Minnehaha Falls and Fort Snelling....

On Saturday, Bulscu (a student from Rumania) and I visited the Minnehaha Falls and Fort Snelling south of downtown.
The falls are located close to the estuary of the Minnehaha river into the Mississippi. They are about 20 meters in hight and are very nicely located close to Minnehaha park. So on that nice Saturday a lot of people were in the park picnicing or just enjoying the nice weather.



After walking around a little, we then went to the Fort Snelling. The Fort was once the northern-most outpost of the US (for further information see this link). It is build on the bluffs above the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers. As a visitor you could tour around the Fort and at every interesting spot there were people in their 1820s clothes and roles withing the Fort. They were telling you how life was and one could also ask questions about the life and situation around that time. It was very interesting to hear about the history of the soldiers and the life of the people living at that time. Also, we learned a lot about the indigenous people's life at the time when the US army arrived in the Midwest.

Here you go with a movie about the loading and firing of a canon - very cool!