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TSA anticipates the busiest holiday season in history this year
Yet the travelers KARE 11 talked with said it was a pretty easy experience.
ST PAUL, Minn — The Transportation Security Administration is anticipating this to be the busiest holiday travel season in history with 2.9 million passengers traveling across the country on Sunday alone.
The Metropolitan Airports Commission is expecting just over 43,000 travelers through Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) on Sunday, putting it in the top five percent of busiest days of the year.
Yet the travelers KARE 11 talked with said it was a pretty easy experience.
“Pretty easy, pretty easy, ” said Amarion Meshack, after traveling to Las Vegas.
Robert Beverly and Moses Chambers agreed.
“It was actually one of the smoothest transitions getting through security,” said Chambers.
They see eye to eye on that, but not everything with Beverly wearing Vikings gear and Chambers proudly declaring, “Bears fan!”
“I’m the older wiser, brother,” Chambers said.
KARE 11 also found a family traveling for another sport at the airport.
“His skis are small enough to fit in the checked bag so it’s a nice age for travel,” said Ellie Bursch from Duluth, talking about her son, Frankie. “For Thanksgiving, we went to Snowmass, Aspen, to visit some friends who’ve moved out there from Minnesota.”
Sunday’s numbers don’t top the Thursday of MEA, which saw almost 50,000traveling through MSP’s security but, still, Sunday was certainly a busy day with a lot of people happy to be home or, in the case of Beverly and Chambers, happy to be here for Monday’s game.
“Skol Vikings!” said Beverly.
“Go Bears! chanted Chambers.
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Get your Boo Bag at St. Croix Chocolate Company
This Halloween the chocolate shop is getting very festive.
MARINE ON SAINT CROIX, Minn. — A small sweet shop in a Minnesota river town has won some BIG awards for its chocolates.
St. Croix Chocolate Company in Marine on St. Croix has won national and international awards including Best of Show in this year’s America’s Division of the International Chocolate Awards.
Their chocolates are available at the St. Croix Chocolate Company kitchen or online.
This Halloween they are selling a Halloween Countdown Calendar that features 14 prize-winning recipes made into ghosts, bats, skulls and other spooky configurations. They also have a Boo Bag-handled tote that comes with their “best of” Halloween assortment.
Owner and Chocolatier, Robyn Dochterman, joined KARE 11 Saturday to share what St. Croix Chocolate Company has to offer.
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RECIPE: Homemade pasta from Red Rabbit
MINNEAPOLIS — Making pasta at home is relatively simple, as long as you have the right tools.
October is National Pasta Month and Red Rabbit‘s Corporate Chef, Adam Lerner, joined KARE 11 Saturday to show us how to make homemade noodles in the confines of your own kitchen.
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New book addresses life’s tough conversations
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Talking about life-changing events like illness, injury and aging isn’t always pleasant, but avoiding those conversations can make things much harder when they do happen.
A Twin Cities couple is trying to help spur important discussions with a new interactive workbook called “Family Conversations We Must Have But Do Not Want To.” Lisa White, a registered nurse and Michael White, a licensed nursing home administrator and assisted living director, wrote the workbook to steer individuals, seniors, couples and families toward making life decisions so they’re on the same page.
The Whites visited KARE 11 Saturday to talk about the book and the personal story that had them struggling in the search for answers to important questions.