Madeline Island

We accompanied our good friends to Madeline Island, WI again this summer.  Let's say we are so blessed that they invite us and put up with us the entire time we are there.  We spent Monday traveling, it takes a good 7-8 hours to get their with kids.  The Randalls were a little ahead of us, but we caught them and we both ended up on the 6:00 pm ferry to the island.
  I stopped at Sunglass Hut in Woodbury, MN to get some new shades and lunch. 

We had a really relaxing time.  Our kids match up really well almost the same age.  The kids all sleep on the third floor of the house, aptly named Bear Camp, it is filled with 3 bunk beds.  We had Noelle camp in with us in a crib.  Mya and Emily slept in the same bed most nights because they thought it would be so fun. 
We ate, played at the beach, went on boat rides, ate, read, kayaked, swam, ate, hiked, rock hunted, dock jumped, ate, watched sunsets, made smores, fryed sweet corn, ate, slept, had quality coffee time, snuggled, watched Back to the Future trilogy, and ate.

I would highly suggest a trip to Bayfield or the Apostle Islands, it is beautiful.  I loved my week without internet!

 Lake Superior (it was almost warm this year)

 Dallas completely worn out!

 Noelle didn't wander in much further than this, but she would play at the edge of the water happily for hours. 

 Emily and Mya hunted for special rocks, for hours

 Sunset

 Sticky smores

 Daddy and Noelle

 The men, doing some thinking?

This giant bench glider is epic.  It really makes the vacation.  Both of our family's can sit comfortably on it and swing back and forth.  Lots of eating, conversation a,d watching Gods wonder happens on this glider.