Cave Point, Door County Wisconsin

Cave Point County Park, Door County
You can see the rain falling in the distance.
It's difficult to get perspective in this photo.
It was farther from the people to the water than it looks.

Note: Joyce's Wednesday Hodgepodge will be back next week, July 5.

We spent last weekend with our daughter and son-in-law in Green Bay and in Door County. It is the first time I've ever been to Door County, and when people are surprised by that, I tell them that we're two hours northeast of Minneapolis, two hours south of Duluth, and three hours north of Westby, so those were the directions we traveled until our daughters and their families moved back to Wisconsin. Door County is now worth the extra trek to get there, in my opinion, especially now that our daughter and son-in-law are residents of Green Bay rather than Denton, Texas and another daughter and her family live in Wausau, right on the route to Green Bay. It makes all the difference.

I took this pic of the grandkids at Monk Botanical Gardens in Wausau.

'We got to see the grandkids, spending a few hours with them before driving on to Green Bay, then the next morning got up and drove to Door County, meandering the scenic, 'New Englandesque' villages with family. It does feel very New England and yet very Wisconsin.'

 The thick red line across the state is the 4.5 hour drive from our home to Door County by way of Wausau (where one daughter lives) and Green Bay (where another daughter lives).
original map via

 Once we got to Cave Point north of Sturgeon Bay, Mr. C. zeroed in on the marker.
I know that man has read every marker in every park we've visited.
It's a joke between the kids and me. He doesn't think it's all that funny. :-)

 Ahhhh, beautiful Wisconsin

Hang on tight, Mr. C!

 I managed to talk the son-in-law back from the edge.
I didn't know that life with our daughter would be that difficult. LOL

 Stone Cairns of Door County
Cave Point

Left: Tree roots, which I was careful to avoid
Middle: DC Deli at Bailey's Harbor where we ate lunch
(followed by frozen custard at a little shop down the street)
Right: shore of Lake Michigan

 Mr. C. and our daughter,
Tall son-in-law and his short (and nice) mom
Sturgeon Bay, WI

 Left: Farmers' Market in Green Bay
Middle: Stacked Stones at Cave Point
Right: No man is an island (except for our son-in-law)

All in all, it was a great weekend. We got to see the grandkids, spending a few hours with them before driving on to Green Bay, then the next morning got up and drove to Door County, meandering the scenic, 'New Englandesque' villages with family. It does feel very New England and yet very Wisconsin. It's where I'd like to rent a holiday cottage for the entire family for the big anniversary that Mr. C. and I have coming up in a couple years. Wouldn't it be fun for the whole family to spend a weekend together there. I think so. But only in the summertime of course.

 Another red Wisconsin barn

somewhere between Green Bay and Wausau

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And now, what you've all been waiting for:
Tommy and Smokey
(I looked back through several posts to see if I'd already posted this.
If I have, I'm sorry. You'll just have to see two cute, snuggly kitties again.)

Linked to Mosaic Monday

and Eileen's Saturday's Critters

and Tom's Barn Collective

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