Family Vacation

Last week Nick, myself and Adi headed up North to stay at Bob & Tanya's cabin just outside of Glidden, WI! Since we didnt take our yearly trip to Canada this summer, we wanted to take a cheap, nice, relaxing family vacation. THANK YOU to Bob and Tanya for sharing their beautiful cabin with us for the week!

We left home Tuesday around 12:30 which was a bit later than we wanted to start but work first, then play! We got to the cabin around 5 p.m. at which time it was immediate baby proofing...thank goodness I remember the plug covers! Adi was all sorts of excited to get into and see all the new things. It was a full moon night...if you have never seen a full moon up North, I HIGHLY suggest it! Adi went to bed and Nick and I decided to head out to the porch and take in the cool, crisp gorgeous night!

Wednesday we hit the road checking out some of the sights we otherwise dont usually get to see being on the snowmobiles! And I have to add it was SUNNY and 74 degrees! Doesnt get much better than that, unless of course it is 25 degrees with 2 feet of snow! We went to Hurley/Ironwood, MI to visit Copper Peak...ski flying hill...next time I want to ride the lift to the top but with Adi, that just possible...too unsafe for her! After we did some site seeing around the area, we headed back to Mellen, WI to visit Copper Falls State Park! GORGEOUS! That is all I can say about this park! We did the 2 mile hike around the falls which is simply breathtaking! The water is low right now so the falls arent rushing quite as fast as they normally would but still amazing! After a wonderful day, miss Adi was tuckered out so we headed back to the cabin!

Wednesday night it began raining which gave us the perfect excuse to stay in on Thursday...we stayed in comfy clothes, ate great food, all of us took naps and just hung out! It was a GREAT day!

Friday we again took to the roads checking out some of the places we dont usually get to since we are normally on snowmobile! So, we headed further North to Ashland, WI where we found some interesting sites to see! Lake Superior is so interesting to me. I could spend HOURS upon HOURS walking the shores taking in the sites and smells...so relaxing! We found a little town called Bayfield, WI that has a ferry which crosses Lake Superior to the Apostle Islands which is supposed to be another phenomenal site to see! However, as we were headed to Bayfield it began to sprinkle so we kept trucking and hit some BEAUTIFUL fall colors! Northern Wisconsin peak for colors is well past already, but just along the shore of Lake Superior the colors were in full peak so we at least got to enjoy that!

Saturday we once again wanted to visit some places we would normally see only in the winter season, so it was nice seeing things green or without snow...just to get the sense of what it's like! We headed to Bear Chasers which is this little teeny tiny bar out in the middle of nowhere on a nice lake which any hour of any day during snowmobile season is FILLED with sleds...that is a site to see! Last fall Bear Chasers burnt down, so it wont be open again until late November, 2011, but it was still nice to see! We just hit the fire roads hoping to find interesting places and that we did!

Saturday night Adi's Uncle Bob and Aunt Tanya came to their cabin so we got to spend some really fun time with them as well as Nick's cousin Laura, her boyfriend Joe and their friend Dave stopped by for a visit so that was nice spending some time with them as well! Adi headed to bed and us adults had a great time with some drinks, laughs and fun!

Sunday of course, all the fun had to be put on pause until our next visit which I am sure will be very soon with Winter upon us!