Over Labor Day weekend, Dad and I played bridge at the Fargo Regional. We teamed up with a father-son combination from the Fargo area. We entered two knockout events with them, coming in first and third. Not too shabby! We might even team up again next year. I rounded out the bridge year with two sectional tournaments played with my sister Tina. Also in September, we went to visit my sisters' cabin in Kettle River. We had a good time enjoying the fall foliage and talking around the campfire: Later in September Katie and I went to Paris! Details from that trip are in a separate entry. Through the rest of the autumn, we've partaken of Minneapolis/St. Paul culture as much as we could. We saw three musicals ( Ain't Misbehavin' , Cats , and Chess ) saw three art exhibits (Old Masters of the Wadsworth Museum, Alexander Calder, and some photographer that Katie wanted to see), and signed up for a series of lectures on modern scholarship in American history that has been very en