For many years now, I've had a blog called "A Year In Photos" on our Shabsin Family of Rochester, Minnesota, website. Like everything on the website, it's password protected so only family members and a few close friends can see it. On and off, I've decided to put one of my picture-of-the-day entries out here in my public space so anyone who knows about it can see it. So if you've found this page, you can enjoy my latest entry and all its supporting pictures and the narrative that accompanies it, at least for now. (It'll only stay up until I post a new one, but that's not very often.)

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NOTE: Recently (since early 2025) clicking on a video link (indicated by a time after the link, e.g. (0:25)) doesn't always work. (It's a Google bug.) If you get an error when you click on such a link, just try it again. It always works the second time.

May 25, 2025


Sunday, May 25 - Today we took a 9+ hour road trip with friends Teresa, Steve, and Jing, starting at Como Park Zoo and ConservatorynoteParking was so bad around the
zoo and Como Park, we had to
drive quite a distance to get to
a shuttle bus lot to get a bus to
take us right to the zoo entrance.
It actually turned out to be pretty
convenient.. Click here to see a bunch of pictures from there. From the zoo, we headed to Master Noodles in St. Paul for lunch, where I had their Braised Beef Rib Noodle Soup (one of my favorite meals), then finally to the Twin Cities Premium Outlets Mall in Eagan for some shopping. Leaving the mall, we stopped at a McDonalds for some ice cream (their hot fudge sundaes were really good, but I didn't take any pictures). We finally arrived home around 6:30 PM after more than 9 hours of running around. Whew!