Door County! July 8 & 9, 2024

We packed and left around 10:30 a.m. and headed North to Wisconsin!

On the drive, our family listened to "Out of My Mind."  Great book.  We all enjoyed it.

We stopped for lunch by Columbus, IN.  McAlister's, our favorite.

Noah got all the mac & cheese he could eat!

We arrived in Lafayette, IN around 6ish and checked into our hotel room.

Then we took a mini tour of Lafayette and showed the kids where we lived for two years.  Here's our apartment at Portledge Commons.  

Awww, memories...

Then we went to Purdue and showed the kids where Nels went to grad school.  Picture on the stairs at Rawls Hall.

Then we walked around campus.  I love Purdue's campus with the red brick.  It's a pretty college campus.

We went to the engineering fountain.  

Flashback to 2006...wow...18 years ago!

We have our family now and it's so fun!  

Here's Nels in front of Rawls Hall.

Here's Harry's Chocolate Shop...it's not a real chocolate shop...it's a bar.  But when we were going to school, I was so excited to go in it.  Then sadly learned they just serve beer.  😢

We ate dinner at Chili's.   Then went back to our hotel room.  We decided it smelled terrible.  So we switched rooms from 205 to 207.  So much better.  Phew!  

 

July 9, Tuesday - 

We all slept pretty well.  We were up by 7 a.m.  Then we packed and left for the Purdue Bookstore.  Sofie and Noah loved these puppies.  We took a picture so we didn't have to buy them.  😄  Nels bought like 5 Purdue shirts!  He was very happy with them.

Then we finished our drive up to Door County.   We listened to "Out of My Mind" together.  Then I listened to the "Compound Effect" and "Namesake."  We ate lunch at a gas station.  We arrived at Urskogen the Blue Cottage in Ellison Bay, WI at 4ish.

We unloaded the van and made the beds.  

Then we went to the Piggly Wiggly for groceries.  We ate dinner at Door County Ice Cream Factory.  Sofie and Noah got grilled cheese.  

We also got a large pizza.  It's seriously the best pizza.  Mmmm.

Then we got some ice cream!

Kira - Blue Moon

Isak - Strawberry

Noah - Chocolate

Me and Sofie - A big Waffle cone with mint chocolate chip and death by chocolate.

Then we watched the sunset over the beach near the cottage.  We call it Rock Beach.  

The kids loved skipping and throwing rocks.  

We were just so grateful to be here, in such a beautiful place.  💜

We eventually got settled in the cottage and went to sleep with the windows open.