Soaking Up The Midwest

Have I mentioned yet that I loved our time in Madison? 

Because, for reals, yo, I loved it! 

The Midwest is great in so many ways, we did our very best to see lots of great stuff before we had to leave.

The Dells

 One of our favorite places to visit near Madison is The Wisconsin Dells. There are like a million Water and Theme parks to visit as well as lots of Kitchy exhibits and shows. We always stay at the Wilderness Resort, where we go wild in the many indoor and outdoor water parks. We went for my birthday and Jack totally surprised me by arranging to have my sister-in-law and nieces and nephews come up from Iowa to meet us. We had a blast! But no pictures because I didn't want to take my camera to the pool. 

Originally, the main attraction at The Dells were the actual DELLS. Which are beautiful rock formations along the river. We took a great boat tour to see the sites.

 Along the tour route the boat lets you off to take little hikes. This canyon was so awesome!

 On one of the stops you get to see a dog jump across this gap. Can you see him?

Jack is famous, his name was carved in the cliff.

 And on this Trolley!

Door County

 We were told by many, many people that we "had" to visit Door County. WI. So we did, and they were right! We L-O-V-E-D it. It was gorgeous, I want to retire there (in the summer only of course) Door County is the little point of land that sticks out from Wisconsin into Lake Michigan.

 We toured a light house. Truman was a Zombie.

 We took the Ferry to Washington Island.

 The Island was beautiful. While there we stopped at Schoolhouse Beach. The Beach is covered in these beautiful smooth white stones. Which I think are really rare, at least you aren't meant to take any away with you when you leave.

Not so great for relaxing on, however.

We stopped to see this awesome Stavkirke.

 Back at camp on the main land we went swimming, and toured around and enjoyed the most gorgeous sunsets over the lake.