Door County

This last weekend we spent some time in Door County WI. It is the thumb of Wisconsin that sticks out into Lake Michigan. We left Friday night after work with no reservations and hardly any plans. We lucked out with getting the last campsite available (I was glad of that because Brad wanted to sleep in the church parking lot if we didn’t get a campsite). So with no plans and all the maps we could find we went ‘exploring the door’. It was a good way to find out exactly what is up here in the door county that we hear so much about. And it was kind of nice to not have to rush to anything because we had no where we needed to be. We were able to see many beautiful shore line views, tour a lighthouse, see some ship wreck sites, visit the sand dunes beach, and eat at some cool restaurants (all for reasonably cheap). Brad really liked the area because of the Scandinavian influence, we stopped at a couple Scandinavian stores and ate at a Swedish restaurant with real goats on the roof (really I’m not kidding, but the goats left before we could take a picture). We decided next time though we need to explore more of the lake itself (either by canoe or by kayak).

Here is Brad our trusty captain of the trip.

We made several pit stops just to see the lake

Brad and I dressed to match the buoys

This resturant serves you by train

Outside the resturant we found lots of random things like a huge chest game

Scott tells us about the shipwreck

This is one huge light used in the lighthouse!

Here is the shore just below the lighthouse (doesn't look to bad to be shipwrecked here)

The most photographed lighthouse in wisconsin and we helped take some more.

Here I had to pull over and take a picture of this road, who designed this one?

The view from atop a tower

Here are some sweet cliffs that we were told to visit just up from the beach

We even caught the sunset

With a background like that we had to be cute