Last night Sheena and I stayed at the Elephant Walk B&B in Stillwater, MN. I’m not a hotel reviewer so I’ll keep it short and sweet. I highly, highly, recommend this B&B to anyone, especially people in Minneapolis or St. Paul who need to get away from noise for a little while. Stillwater is only 30 minutes from Minneapolis, but as long as you shut your cell phones off (like we did) you feel like you’re much farther away. The Elephant walk was clean, comfortable, and quiet. Having eaten our faces off the day before we almost skipped breakfast, but when I told Rita, the owner, that we were going to skip breakfast she convinced me to stay. Had we skipped it, we would have missed out on the best part of the whole stay. First fresh pineapple, then stuffed french toast with fresh fruit and a fantastic spinach and asiago cheese sausage, then a baked pear in a carmelized sort of creme anglaise. The breakfast was absolutely fantastic. We also got to spend some time with Rita and another interesting couple and have some good conversation before heading out.

The house is beautiful and is chock full of treasures mainly from southeast Asia but other parts of the world as well. I will confess that from the web site I thought the house and the rooms would be very “kitchy”. I was actually completely wrong, everything is beautiful and unique.

From Minneapolis you could easily leave around 3 to beat the traffic, enjoy dinner in Stillwater, stay at the Elephant Walk, have a fantastic breakfast and be back the next day by noon at the latest. Life is short, if you’re not taking time to do things like this you’re Doing It Wrong.

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