WINTER FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

We had been invited to go to Sturgeon Bay in Door County, Wisconsin ever since we've been married.  Long time friends of Bill's parents live there and have always snowmobiled so said for us to come up and ride with them any time.  This is the guy that Bill has always gone with to South Dakota every summer to prairie dog hunt.

The past two years there really hasn't been much snow anywhere.  I guess it was about a week ago I replied to an e mail of John's and said "do you have snow"?  There was snow coming for both of us so he called and said "come now before the storm!"  But Glenn was coming through here on his way back to Indiana from Texas so we couldn't go for a few days which worked out good for them too.  

We left last Wed. night and got to snowmobile for two days and 100 miles.  It's hard to describe how much fun it was, but what I loved was just being outside and flying through the snow through BEAUTIFUL winter scenery which you can see some of here in my pictures.  John & Mary Jeanne have five snowmobiles so we all could ride one alone if we wanted to which is more fun than being a passenger.  They also had plenty of warm snow pants, jackets, gloves, helmets, etc. for us to wear.  The snowmobiles have hand warmers and your feet go in spots that keeps them warm too.  I was never cold one bit and even rode with my helmet shield part way up part of the time.  

The snowmobile I rode.

I could've stayed in this area all day!

John, Mary Jeanne and Bill

John says there are 23,000 miles of marked and groomed snowmobile trails in Wisconsin.  John & Mary Jeanne belong to a snowmobile club and they have fundraisers and things to raise money to pay for the grooming machine, markers, etc.  You can get on the trails right at their house, but they have a trailer if they want to take their machines to Michigan or other places to ride.   

We flew through the ends of fields, wound through woods, past lots of really neat, big red barns/farms and cherry and apple orchards, and even went across the frozen bay for a bit.  There were lots of ice shacks and vehicles farther out on the ice including a big motor home!  (yikes - I didn't like being on the ice very well) 

A cherry orchard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Door County is famous for its cherries and is surrounded by water so there are about 11 lighthouses.  Click HERE to see pictures of them and read about Door County.  We didn't see any lighthouses this trip, but will be going back in July for John & Mary Jeanne's 50th anniversary party - and now we're really looking forward to it!  We'll drive north along the lake side and back down on the bay side and check out the lighthouses.   

Will have another post or two about this long weekend getaway.

In the meantime here at home, it's very windy tonight and snow is on the way.  This morning they said we're supposed to get 4" tonight and tomorrow and then another 7" into Tues.  I'll be watching it snow and daydreaming about snowmobiling.