The Cohost Minnesota Wake

Also, just to let you know, this post is going to be mostly pictures, with some minor commentary attached. Enjoy!

I arrived about 30 minutes early. I left early because I wasn’t certain if things would go wrong on the train. (Things went wrong with taking the train.) Since I had some time, I took photos around the park while waiting.

The house of John H. Stevens, and the birthplace of Minneapolis. It is a house covered in blue tarp and guarded by a chain-link fence. Doesn’t look particularly historic. Minnehaha Falls from the top. You can’t see the falls. Minnehaha Falls from the side. This time you can see the falls. There is some foliage pleasantly framing the image.
Images taken by me!

People slowly came in until we were about eight strong. We ate snacks (which I give a 4/5) and drank flavored sparkling water (which I give a 2/5) and chatted about memories of cohost. We even got to meet the bug himself! Eggbug was there! I brought him from my house!

It’s Eggbug! He’s on the table with another plushie and a “Friend of Eggbug” patch. Eggbug next to a piece of Tony’s Chocolate. The Tony in question is the brand of chocolate, there wasn’t anyone at the meetup named Tony.
Images taken by Fran and Sapphire, respectively

I got to hold Eggbug in front of the overlook for the waterfall. It was very elegant and I think he really appreciated the view.

Me holding Eggbug in front of the falls.
Image taken by Sapphire

Next, all eight of us took a group photo in front of the overlook. Then, we went down quite the lengthy flight of stairs to the falls themselves. We took another group photo on a bridge in front of the waterfall.

The gang’s all here. We are all posing around the eggbug plushie. The Cohost Wake group doing a group shot in front of Minnehaha falls.
Images taken by Fran

After that, we walked down the trail from the falls to the beach. Did you know there’s a beach downriver from Minnehaha Falls? I didn’t.

We’re all walking down the trail to the beach.
Image taken by Sapphire

Once we reached the beach, we got ready for the most important part of the meetup. This is what we all came here for. (This was not, in fact, what we all came here for. Going down this trail was done on a whim.)

Everyone walking down to the beach. Their footing looks uneven. They’re a bit further down the beach now.
Images taken by Fran

We did a photoshoot for Eggbug on the rock! I think he looks very handsome and majestic in these photos.

It’s Eggbug again! He’s on a rock by the beach. It’s the same picture as above, but the camera is a bit closer. It’s the same picture as above, but the camera is much further away.
Images taken by Fran and I, irrespectively

We exchanged contact information by the beach. This was the picture I took to remind people who I was in the group chat.

I’m waving my hand in a portrait photo. Sapphire and Fran are poking out from head.
Image taken by me

Then it started getting late. We all decided it was time to wrap up and head out. Since it turned out I wasn’t the only person who arrived by train, all of us train riders got some food together at Afro Deli on the way back. It was my first time there and I wholeheartedly recommend it. Would go again.

The plaza of the park. People are walking around. The training home group eating food together. The focus of the image is on the food. We’re eating some curry, falafel, and fries.
Images taken by me! Goodbye!

It was a really nice trip! You’d think I would wrap up a post like this with a segment about how much cohost meant to me, but what I really learned is that it’s really nice to meet up with people in real life. Almost everyone was a new face that I didn’t see on cohost at all, but we all had something in common, and I had a really good time meeting them. I really want to see them all again some time soon.

In a way, it’s fitting that the real cohost, and the only cohost I have left now (besides all the blogs! I love you guys!), is the friends we made along the way. Although I mostly didn’t make any of these friends along the way, and I only made them in real life after the site shut down and we all touched grass together.

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