In which Green Bay provides some good news
My co-worker is getting the car this trip, and since I got into Green Bay about 7 hours before he did, if I was going to get groceries it was by people power.
I came to Green Bay with a check in my pocket that needed to make it into my checking account this weekend. It's the upper-midwest, where US Bank is based. I figured that I'd not have any trouble finding a US Bank, and the good news is that there is one on the corner about a block from my hotel. Check deposited.
But wait, there's more. I don't think I've ever used my Yellowstone card in ATM before. I had to memorize my PIN, which meant that I had to get my PIN before leaving the house this morning. And when I punched it into the ATM, I had the option of my account or the joint account! Very cool! What's more, the receipt gave me an accounting of how much money the Yellowstone card had donated to the Yellowstone Foundation. I am so impressed.
Moving along on my walk to the grocery store. I was amused that the ladies at the hotel's front desk thought it was too far to walk. Well, it was, once I was laden with groceries. But the trip over there was a good walk, and it went past a garden center, which had tall bearded irises on one of the benches out front.
Like a moth to the flame, I had to go look. And they have Before the Storm, one of the iris that I've been wanting. And Batik. I'm trying to figure out how to get them home. I suppose I could just wait till summer and order them, but where's the fun in that?
Next to the garden center is a cemetery, established in the 1860s. Had I known that was there, I might not have slept this afternoon, and gone photographing cemetery art instead. There are four more evenings in Green Bay, after all. And maybe the light will be better later this week. Looking at the map, I see that the Catholic cemetery is a block or two south of the hotel as well. This is gonna be good.
I came to Green Bay with a check in my pocket that needed to make it into my checking account this weekend. It's the upper-midwest, where US Bank is based. I figured that I'd not have any trouble finding a US Bank, and the good news is that there is one on the corner about a block from my hotel. Check deposited.
But wait, there's more. I don't think I've ever used my Yellowstone card in ATM before. I had to memorize my PIN, which meant that I had to get my PIN before leaving the house this morning. And when I punched it into the ATM, I had the option of my account or the joint account! Very cool! What's more, the receipt gave me an accounting of how much money the Yellowstone card had donated to the Yellowstone Foundation. I am so impressed.
Moving along on my walk to the grocery store. I was amused that the ladies at the hotel's front desk thought it was too far to walk. Well, it was, once I was laden with groceries. But the trip over there was a good walk, and it went past a garden center, which had tall bearded irises on one of the benches out front.
Like a moth to the flame, I had to go look. And they have Before the Storm, one of the iris that I've been wanting. And Batik. I'm trying to figure out how to get them home. I suppose I could just wait till summer and order them, but where's the fun in that?
Next to the garden center is a cemetery, established in the 1860s. Had I known that was there, I might not have slept this afternoon, and gone photographing cemetery art instead. There are four more evenings in Green Bay, after all. And maybe the light will be better later this week. Looking at the map, I see that the Catholic cemetery is a block or two south of the hotel as well. This is gonna be good.
posted by Melanie Unruh-Bays at
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