Cheap Blue See

A week ago, on Friday the 13th, mommy and daddy took me to an interesting place. We drove over an hour on Wisconsin country roads (and passed at least 3 Wal-Marts) to get to some small (and a bit scary) town, Beloit, WI. They were having what they call River Fest, and we went to see Blue Öyster Cult and Cheap Trick.

I think my favorite thing was the people watching, it was pretty unbelievable. It seemed like mommy and daddy did more of this than watching the music. My second favorite thing was the elephant ear (mommy always has to get these whenever we go somewhere they are available), I tried to take a picture of it, but I was distracted by my feet:



Then I turned the camera around and took a self-portrait (note elephant ear on face):



Daddy made sure I had my ear protection so I could really get into the music.



Note the interesting Beloit hair on the right (I was trying to be subtle so mommy & daddy could get a photo of the evidence):



I had a lot of fun, and Blue Öyster Cult even sang a song just for me, Godzilla...how did they know about my passion for dinosaurs??

They had fireworks afterwards, but we wanted to make a quick getaway so we tried to leave before they started. But as we walked out, we walked by a bunch of children amusement rides. Mommy kept saying how dirty and unsafe they looked, but I insisted I needed to try it out myself! Daddy got me one ticket, and I went on the merry-go-round with mommy. I really wanted to go on the horse that went up and down, but I thought it was too scary once mommy put me on it, so mommy and me sat on a bench and went around in circles. It was so much fun...I waved to daddy every time we passed him. Of course I wanted to do more after, but mean mommy & daddy made me leave.

I think I fell asleep in the car right away....I was sleepy. Good thing, because I think mommy & daddy got lost on the way home.

My new toy!!

I now have the luxury to get driven all over town in this:



This morning we rode to a yummy brunch place where ate outside, and I got to make a mess with the syrup and sugar while mommy and daddy tried to eat their food.

vacation!

Last weekend we went on a mini-vacation to Door County. We stayed at a really nice bed & breakfast, called the Eagle Harbor Inn, it looks much better in person than on the web site. The food there was really yummy, we ate full breakfasts on the patio every morning. Well, I would walk around, and mommy & daddy would eat breakfast.



We saw this rainbow as we drove in the first day:



The first day there, we went to Peninsula State Park and mommy & daddy brought their bikes and rented a bike trailer to take me along on a 10-mile bike trail through the park. At first, I was scared to get in it...but once mommy pretended to leave without me, I was convinced. It was really fun, I got to go up and down hills really fast. We stopped so I could play on a playground, and stopped at a beach, and I even got a chance to take a lazy nap, while mommy pulled me around.

We also went swimming in the pool at the hotel, and walked on beaches. I loved chasing the "fu-flies" (butterflies) on the beach. They would never sit still though, and made me do a lot of running. Daddy took a lot of video of me, but of course it is still on the video camera.



A nature preserve...this is walking to it, from the beach:



I would never stand still, I didn't want mommy to get too good of a picture!





On our last night there it was mommy's birthday, so we went to dinner at a really nice restaurant called Mission Grille. It was mommy's choice, and she kept saying how much she loved it, and how everything was so good. But, I did not want her to enjoy her time too much and forget about me, so for the first 45 minutes I walked around, and refused to sit. We were sitting outside, so I kept going inside, and trying to see what was going on in the kitchen. Finally at the end, I decided to sit at our table, and ate most of our shared berry cobbler dessert.

This is across from our bed & breakfast. The day was overcast, but the water was actually clear and blue:



If you look carefully, you can see the little town, of Ephraim, that we stayed in:



Mommy and daddy kept saying how their favorite part about Door County was that there were no chains. No Starbucks, no McDs, no strip malls, no hotel chains. It was really nice, and I know mommy is already talking about how she wants to go back up there when the leaves are turning. I want more yummy ice cream and cherries. I can't wait to go back too!