What a great day…for hockey. Cameron (co-founder) and I got a chance to get out from behind our computers for a few hours this afternoon to attend the tournament. Although our phones rang about 20 times each…the break was great - and much needed! The hockey tournament brings back a lot of memories.

And the most exciting part of this tournament…ALL NORTHERN MN TEAMS ADVANCED!!!! Looking at the brackets…there is actually a chance to have an all NORTH championship - Class A & Class AA (with Grand Rapids’ huge win over Edina this evening). My 8 year-old goes to Normandale Elementary in Edina and was cheering for the Hornets all night…but her dad has a soft spot in his heart for any team north of Duluth (see my previous post).

Anyway, back to LakePlace.com - we got all of the refined searches working…but we still have a couple of small glitches causing a slowdown on some of our pages…we should have that cleaned up by morning (fingers crossed). We still have some mapping issues to take care of as well. It is very, very difficult to get good map locations on LakePlace.com due to the “rural effect.” Maps work great in the big cities…but once you get out a little ways…the geocodes are a lot harder to come by. We will do our best to get these maps as accurate as possible - as soon as possible.

Anyway, we have been getting a ton of great comments on the new user-interface…and we hope you like it too! Keep on checking back as we will be introducing new features frequently (once we get all of the lint cleaned out of LakePlace.com version 4). Have a great night & happy lake home hunting!