We went downtown yesterday to walk across the Stone Arch Bridge and the Mississippi River. The walking bridge was recently re-opened and has drawn an incredible amount of people since the I35 bridge collapse last week.


Minneapolis skyline from the Stone Arch Bridge.

The mood on the bridge was relatively quiet and somber. Most visitors just quietly looked over the twisted green steel beams and the vertical piece of highway that you could see in the distance.

The Guthrie Theater was allowing groups of people to look downriver at the bridge site from their cantilevered observation deck.

I wish closure for the families of the missing. It all still seems very surreal.