A Little More Minnesota Exploring

Hi everyone. Today I just wanted to share with you some photos we took while driving up the North Shore to some of Duluth's neighboring towns. We decided to drive up the north shore to see more of the fall colors. It is already beautiful in the city but we wanted to see all that fall had to offer here. Our goal was to drive up the Grand Marais, MN but we stopped just short of that. Minnesota really does have such an untouched beauty still. I mean parts of South Carolina are that way but those parts are quickly disappearing due to people and businesses moving in. Here it seems you can go miles and miles without encountering civilization. I mean it could have something to do with the further north you go the worse the winters will be. If if helps to understand how far north I am talking about, we were almost to Canada. (About 80 miles south of Canada I think.)

Anyway one of the beautiful sights was the split rock light house. Due to timing we didn't get to hike around the light house but there was a beautiful overlook where we were able to get some awesome photographs.

Next we headed further up the North Shore to a fall color loop that we had heard about from a local fall color website. This was such a beautiful drive even though Teddy decided he had enough of the car seat about half way through the 50 mile loop. Even with his antics though we saw such beautiful scenery and even saw two moose. Apparently that is a rarity even though Minnesota has moose they are usually too scared of cars to get close to the roads. I think it helped that by the time we saw them it was dusk and so most car traffic had settled down. 

Overall we are really enjoying exploring our new home. And on the plus side apparently we have brought the warmer weather with us. It usually should be consistently in the 50's as highs but we have only had a few days below highs of 60's. Maybe we will bring a milder winter with us too because this southern girl is terrified of driving in the snow!

Fun at the Pumpkin Patch

Hi all. I know you probably think I have fallen off the face of the earth, but we have not. We have just been super busy adjusting to our new life here in Minnesota. This weekend we were able to visit a local farm/pumpkin patch with little man. It has been so nice to be able to do these things and have it actually feel like fall. Last year for our pumpkin patch photos I am pretty sure it was seventy degrees and humid, but this year it was a in the fifties and perfect. My only regret is that we did not get a family picture. It was hard enough to get these pictures with a very busy toddler in tow.