We went on a family trip to Wisconsin this past weekend which was wonderful! We stayed the first night in Appleton, WI and surprised cousin Kelly for a visit at their restaurant. Thanks Kelly and Rick for the delicious pizza at Pizano's in Appleton! We highly recommend it for any of you traveling through Appleton soon. Carson and Gavin were terrors that night at dinner- luckily we were the only ones left in the restaurant at that point. The boys had fun swimming at the Residence Inn after dinner that night and passed out within minutes at bedtime.
On Friday, we made our way through Packer country to Door County. It was beautiful weather- mid to high 70's most of the weekend with exception of rain on Saturday morning for a couple hours. We checked into our cabin in Bailey's Harbor around 11am on Friday and then went to lunch at Diggers before heading to Peninsula State Park. We started off at the lookout tower where Gavin made it to the 3rd step up before crashing down and cutting his chin on the step. We did finally manage to climb up the tower and get a beautiful view of Door County. Al and I had been there before 10 years ago! Man how time flies. After climbing the tower we went on a 2 mile hike through the woods and near the water. Carson and Gavin loved hiking past all of the caves and Morgan took a nap in the backpack carrier on Daddy for most of the hike.
On Saturday morning we went to the Pumpkin Festival in Egg Harbor. It was raining for the first couple of hours but it quickly cleared up and actually became hot! Carson and Gavin got their faces painted and spent at least 2 hours jumping on a bouncy house and a tornado bouncy slide at the festival. Al and I had a great time sitting on the grass with Morgan, Al with his Honeyweiss and me with the Door County Chardonnay. Not a bad Saturday! For dinner Saturday night we went to PC Junction which was a restaurant where a train dropped off your food in front of you. The kids were all in heaven! The restaurant also had bikes you could ride outside, multiple swing sets, and wood and paints for families to decorate and hang up on their barn. We ran out of time to make our sign on Saturday so we stopped back on Sunday to paint one. Hopefully sometime in the future we can go back to see where our "Carson, Gavin, & Morgan Ghys, 10/07" sign is hung.
On Sunday morning we went on a row boat on Kangaroo Lake with the 3 kids. Then we spent the day driving to the northern part of Door County and doing a lot of "treasure hunts" as the kids like to call them. (GeoCaching with a handheld GPS). For those of you not familiar with this- visit the website at http://www.geocaching.com/. It is great outdoor fun for all ages and its free! We found 17 "treasures" over the course of the weekend all over Door County. Carson and Gavin loved taking turns finding them and trading out their toys and trinkets each time.
The cabins surrounding ours were all full of kids and Carson and Gavin had a blast running around and playing with them all at the playground. Carson even was part of the flag football game with all the kids!
Check out our video to see some of our favorite pictures from Door County. It was a wonderful family weekend getaway!
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