5th Anniversary

Amazing, Relaxing, Peaceful…. That is how our little trip to Lutsen was. It had been a long time since it had been just the 2 of us on a little trip.

We left Wednesday around noon and got to our cabin around 9. The drive was beautiful with the leaves changing and the hills and lakes. (Mom, I told Kelly you and him couldn't go on a trip in fall together cause you would both be saying ‘look, look over there at that tree! And that one over there!! Lol)

Thursday we had brunch at the Coho Café. If any of you ever get over in that area, you have to stop here. It is the most amazing café! With the best pizza and breakfast, but I’ll tell you about that later! After eating we headed out to Cascade Falls. Hiked there for about an hour, drove around some more and stopped for a Frap at some little coffee place. Went up Lutsen Mountain and did the Gondola ride and shopped around some. Then we headed back to the main lodge for a supper overlooking the lake; only it was dark so we didn't see much. Was delish! Especially my salad with blueberries, pecans, and feta.

Friday we hiked around the lodge and our cabin and then decided to go out on the kayak tour. It ended up being just us and an older couple who had never kayaked before, so they gave us some good laughs!! We only got to go for about an hour since a storm was coming in and swells were getting bigger all the time. Kelly and I wanted to stay out longer but beaching the kayaks isn't quite as easy to do as it is in the Florida sand beaches, there were lots of rocks and waves wanted to just shoot you in…. Was a lot of fun! Went back to our cabin and warmed up then went up the mountain again for supper. Back at the cabin we decided to go down to the camp fires and see if there was anything interesting going on…. They have fires every evening on the beach and they give you all the fixings to make s’mores! We never did make any though, because we were always to full from supper!

Saturday we woke up to the waves pounding on the beach. Was awesome to watch them come in and hit the rocks. We said goodbye to our cabin and headed to Coho for breakfast! Sharon you would have loved the croissant we shared! Was so warm and flakey and then…. Topped with pecans and caramel sauce!! And we had Pumpkin Spice Coffee to go with it!! It was truly amazing! We had a scrummy breakfast sandwiches with home-made salsa as well. But the croissant topped it all to pieces! We did buy some coffee from them but it was the French Toast coffee that we had had on Thursday, love it!! On to Duluth were we walked around in the mist and cold shopping at little stores and checking out the museum at the port. Was all very interesting. Then headed on to Fargo, ND for night.

Sunday Kelly and Russ flew out on business so Meletta, Kyla, Melissa, and I did some shopping before heading back to MB. You just can’t beat shopping in the states!! We got home around 11 so we got a lot of shopping done!

And that was our little get away trip!! I’m already looking forward to the next one!! J