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Welcome to Lena Traditional Cache

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Gat R Done: Hi mazzmn

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Hidden : 7/18/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Welcome to Lena.

Not much to see here but this is the site of the former Lena Trading Post. Named for the wife of hotel keeper John Lee. In 1879 Lena contained an official Post Office and a train station for the Chicago Western Railroad.


If you've spent enough time in Minnesota you've no doubt heard an Ole and Lena joke or two.

So with a sense of good old self-deprecating Minnesota tradition I thought we might honor the memory of the Lena Trading Post with a joke or two.

FTF prize (a Norwegian 50 cent piece.) goes to the first cacher to log an Ole and Lena joke.

Note cache contains log only, bring your on writing utensil.

Here are a couple to get us started:

Ole the undertaker was delivering a corpse to a church in Duluth, Minnesota. The hearse was heading up a huge and steep hill when the rear door popped open and the casket started careening down the hill. Thinking quickly Ole ran straight to a nearby drug store and shouted,. "Quick, have you got anything that will stop this coffin?"

Or maybe:

Ole invited his boss to have dinner with he, Lena and Little Ole. As Ole and Lena made last minute preparations, the boss and Little Ole settled in at the table. When Ole's boss asked Little Ole what was being served tonight, little Ole said, "I tink it's buzzard cause dis morning Mamma said to Papa, "if ve are going ta have dat old buzzard for supper, it might as vell be tonight".

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