Yay for Fall!

Fall here is absolutely beautiful!  During the summer it has been so incredibly green, but now all of that green is turning into yellow, orange, and red.  Leaves are falling, the are is getting cooler and everywhere we go is gorgeous!

Here are some pictures from a walk we took today.  This tree is absolutely stunning with it's colors.

 My husband belongs in a magazine

We were watching the blue blue sky and laying on the grass just talking when I looked over at Martin and saw him taking this picture...he's a goofball!

 

As for adventures lately, we got to go to Duluth, MN a couple weeks ago and have a little camping adventure.  And it most certainly was an adventure.  The long story is below, but I will warn you, it's long.  Basically lots of things went differently than what we planned for and we could have been all grumpy about it but we couldn't help but laugh about the whole thing! It was just one of those trips.

So, Duluth is about 3 hours north of us up by Lake Superior, and everyone here has told us we need to go there so we decided at the last minute that we would go!  So after work on Friday I picked Marty up and we eventually got everything ready to be able to hit the road.

We had heard there was construction on the way up so we tried to take a detour...key word tried.  We ended up taking a 40 minute detour that got us nowhere near where we were supposed to be.  We eventually found our way back to the highway and the construction wasn't bad at all.  So we rolled into Duluth around 10pm and our GPS was supposed to take us to a camping ground where we were going to camp for the night.  The GPS ended up taking us to the parking lot of a hospital type building...hmmm.  

So, we drove around for a little bit without any luck and eventually found a gas station where we could ask for directions.  The lady working there had no clue what roads we were even on but she could at least suggest a map for us to look at!  After looking through several maps we finally found the campground!  We hoped back in the car, made our way there and somehow set up camp at 11pm with no light except our handy dandy head lamps!  Little did we know that all the camping sites were walk-in sites, which would have been great if we had prepared for that.  Unfortunately, we thought we'd be able to pull our car up to our spot to use electricity, unpack, etc.  Oh well, we made it work!  So we got the tent all set up and crashed for the night.  

Around 6am I heard a woman's voice over a loud speaker system telling groups of people where to go.  I'm not going to lie, it was pretty creepy and reminded me of the woman from Hunger Games.  Here we were surrounded by trees and there is a loud speaker system with a woman giving people orders...it wasn't the secluded camping I thought it was I guess! Martin was fast asleep and luckily I was able to fall asleep again.  The woman's voice came on several more times, but I just ignored her.  Come to find out, our camping ground was right next to a military training base and a small airport so I'm guessing that's where the voice came from.

  We woke up around 10am to this beautiful view outside our tent:

And we found out we didn't do too bad at setting up our tent in the dark!

We originally planned on making pancakes on a skillet that we thought we'd be able to plug into the car, but we had to change things up a bit.  At the entrance to the campground was a little cabin with bathrooms, showers, etc. and we found an outlet on the outside of the cabin that we could plug our skillet into!  So we started making breakfast and it started to drizzle a bit.  I didn't think much of it because the weather report had said that there was only a 10% chance of rain.  Well, the rain just kept on coming so we whipped out our umbrellas and tried to save the pancakes!

They got a little soggy, but I inherited my dad's amazing pancake making skills and they were still really tasty!  Marty liked the syrup and almost gave himself a hicky on his tongue haha:

The rain kept on coming but it was really fun to try to keep ourselves and the food and all of our supplies dry!  We just had to laugh!  We had a lazy morning and just hung out in the tent while it kept on raining then we eventually took advantage of a break in the rain and quickly cleaned up our site.  We made our way into town and got to see lots of cool things!  There were a couple of piers with lighthouses on Lake Superior that we explored:

Who needs electrical power to lift up bridges when you have Martin?

Me passing the "torch"

We explored a museum

Watched a HUGE boat go through the channel and under the bridge

And then enjoyed the view and ate yummy ice cream

It was a quick trip but absolutely gorgeous up and there and fun to explore the area.  We are doing really really well and work is going well for both of us!  We have lots of things to be excited about in life, that's for sure!