The Events of Friday, September 03, 2010

          Today was a very fun day; in fact it was so fun, that I now have a new favorite part of the trip. But I’m not going to tell you about that part until the end. HA! So now you have to read the whole thing. Well, first, we woke up to a windy, overcast, and cold day. Our campsite was right next to the pool and the showers, so, the adventurous girls of the family, including me, decided to swim and then shower even though it was freezing cold and windy. Lindsey and I checked out the pool temperature after breakfast, and pronounced it swim-able. However, we found out that our idea of warm and swim-able were not the same idea of our family members; Daddy swam for a while, but then left the pool to go to the showers, thus leaving the girls alone. We swam around for a while, did some dancing, and other graceful things, and then we came to a problem. While I was about to show my sisters my back flip, I saw out of the corner of my eye, something swimming in the water. I screamed and we soon discovered that our visitor was a frog. We hung to each other, until I mustered enough courage to get out of the pool, scoop up the frog with a net, and plop him outside the fence. After this unnerving experience, we swam until about 10:30, and then showered and went back to the RV. We blogged, Lindsey French-braided my hair, and we got ready to go.

          Around noon, we finally were ready to go and we left our wonderful campsite. We drove a scenic route through all the cute little coastal towns on the Door Peninsula. We saw lots of quaint houses on the way to our lunch destination. Our directions to it were to drive past the “dead end” sign and into the Death’s Door Pass Town Park. Despite its dire name, it was beautiful and we had a delicious lunch of yummy bread, authentic Wisconsin Colby cheese, and many other delicious vittles. We were right by the Lake Michigan shore line, so we climbed down a steep incline to get to it. From the top, it looked like a cliff, but our persevering father found us a way to get down- which, by the way, was not falling. We went down and felt the water, but decided not to wade in it because this shore was very rocky. Mom had not come down with us, but she called from above, and looked down from the top and talked to us. We came back up and drove on.

          We planned to have spaghetti for dinner, but we didn’t have any salad fixings. Gypsy, our GPS, found us a store that had fresh produce in it. We went in and immediately loved it. There were delicious samples everywhere. There were samples of lemon and lime curd, cherry spice, numerous jams and marmalades, fudge, apple cider, many different kinds of apples, bread, and, believe it or not, lotion. A lot of things about it reminded us of our Apple Hill in CA. Dad found tomatoes for our salad, but nothing else.

          At the fish boil last night, we had been given six free games of golf at a miniature golf course called “The Red Putter”. We went there and played a game of miniature golf. We quickly discovered that Lindsey and I were the worst, although sometimes luck proved otherwise, and Daddy and Ben were the best. While in the middle of our game, it started to pour. We ran to the RV and got our rain jackets. When it started to calm down, we went back out to finish our game. Everything was wet, but we had fun nonetheless. The final result showed Daddy to be the winner, and we happily went back to the RV. At last, it was time to leave this wonderful peninsula. We started our scenic drive south along the shoreline, and we stopped at a beach, called Murphy County Park, for dinner, which happened to be halfway between the equator and the North Pole.

          Unlike the other beaches we had seen, this one was sandy. There was a big dock out onto the lake, and the waves were smashing up against it. It was really windy and white-capped waves were coming into the shore. A cloudy sky, with hints of a sunset, covered everything, and the scene was really astounding. We were amazed that the full-grown trees here were not bent over in half because of the wind, like they are in California.                 We kids went out in sweatshirts, wind breakers and, for some, in rain pants, but all of us were wearing flip-flops. Because this was a park, there were swings and a climbing structure. The swings were very interesting because of how fast the wind was going. As you went high up on the climbing structure, the winds got so fast, it felt like you could fly away. After playing there for a while, we went over to the sand volleyball court and ran around in it with our bare feet. Then we went onto the grass and spun in circles with each other while looking at the stormy sky and then falling to the ground with dizziness. Afterward, we lay on our backs with our heads together and looked and lifted our feet and legs to the sky. We felt really crazy, but we had lots of fun. We suddenly turned over onto our stomachs, and laughed about how silly we were. After that, we got our flip-flops back on and went back to the RV. Mommy handed us our sunglasses through the window to prevent the sand from getting in our eyes. Dad came out and took us to the shore, and we waded and went out on the dock until Mom said dinner was ready. We un-sanded our feet and had a delicious dinner of sausage, spaghetti, salad, bread and animal crackers. After finishing dinner, we started to leave Murphy County Park. Just as we left everything got very dark, and night had begun. As we drove towards a Walmart in Green Bay, so that we could have a place to boondock for the night, we kids made our beds and got ready for bed. By the time we arrived at the Walmart, half of us were asleep, and it was 9:30. We were all very tired but very happy.