Bentleyville

On the Saturday before Christmas, which I am certain was also the coldest day on record in Minnesota, we all decided to go to Bentleyville. We took three cars on some "back way" to the Cloquet area to see this place. If you can find it, you park and get on a school bus which shuttles you to "Bentleyville." There you find the biggest Christmas lights display you can imagine. They start setting up the lights in September every year. There is a huge entrance, an uptown, a downtown, a Santa, and Elvis impersonator, a S'more-making station with firepits, a popcorn house, a hot cider and cookies house, you name it. We were all about the food. Mostly because we needed the extra calories to stay warm. We were wondering whether the whole thing would be worth the trouble, and it turned out it was. We all came back to our house and had pizza and warmed up our chilled bones in the hot tub.