Goodbye Land O Lakes

With the conference over, and most everyone gone, I took in some sights within walking distance of the hotel.

Had breakfast at Mickey's Diner. It was featured on Alton Brown's Feasting on Asphalt where the night guy cooked everything on a tiny cooktop in record speed.

Fortunately my seat at the counter was right in front of the cooktop. The cook never stopped. He said we probably wouldn't get to sit down until 3pm (it was 9:30am).

Stopped off at the Haberdashery for a new bowler hat, but they were closed. Next time.

When you're at an arts conference where folks are selling shows, one thing you notice is that there's a musical for everything. Everything. Billie Joel songs... "Moving Out"... Learning the meaning of life from a puppet? "Avenue Q" ... Exploiting the need to go number one... "Urinetown." Those are the popular ones!

And then there's "Deer Camp - The Musical." Definitely a niche audience.