the birth of the suburbs

i know the suburbs technically started in new jersey, but i think after the suburbs in nj, they came right over to grand forks. anna and i went a on a bike ride all over the town of grand forks. we started in new grand forks, trying to a find a place to rent movies. we finally found a hollywood video. we weren't ecstatic about it since it is no mister movies, but we settled for a couple of movies i don't want to admit to seeing. after passing the usual barrage of super-target, wal-mart, sam's club, old navy, famous footwear, and hugo's (i'll explain another time), we couldn't find a way over the train tracks and happened upon a nice little downtown area that we quaintly called old grand forks.

now old grand forks is a lot more exciting than new grand forks, which means that it is as exciting as the pool at la cresenta. our two and a half hour journey led us to half the population of old and new grand forks: the grand forks speedway. i'm not sure what machines they were riding, but i am sure they were pretty tuff, judging by the rusted out broncos in the parking lot. we eventually made it back to the university with enough time to eat supper. that means dinner in the midwest dialect.