The Apostle Islands... again

So our vacation was so much fun. It was the perfect mix of sightseeing and doing a lot of touristy stuff, but also lots of relaxing and hanging out. Here are just some more pictures from our vacation:

A view of Madeline Island as we approached it on the ferry:






Another view of Bayfield from the ferry:


waiting for the ferry to leave...





One of our favorite memories is when we biked around Madeline Island. We saw 3 really beautiful deer, and they let us get so close to them before bounding away. :) It was great. It's a beautiful island; the views of Lake Superior that we saw while biking around were absolutely gorgeous! Of course, I was slightly scared that we'd happen upon a bear, but that's ok :) Luckily we never did!

For our anniversary on May 26th, we went to the Portside Restaurant, which overlooked the marina. Here are our views from our table:






And here is just a random picture of my eye that Dan took because he was freaking out that it seemed like my eye was green, instead of brown (I have to agree, it looks kind of green in this picture!)

The Apostle Islands Ghost Walk

So, I'm a sucker for anything supernatural. I'll watch the Travel Channel's Most Haunted Hotels or whatever it's called, as well as anything else supernatural, so when I heard there was a "Ghost Walk" in Bayfield, I jumped at it :) Oh, sure, I knew it'd be just stories, but I still thought it sounded fun. I'm so glad we did it; we heard lots of cool, true stories about the town's history (some of it supernatural!) Our guide was great; he was a very entertaining storyteller! Here are some photos we snapped while on our walk:

Here is a really beautiful Victorian B&B (not the one we stayed in!):





Some gardens I thought were pretty...


The view from a bridge

The Apostle Islands: Our bed and breakfast

We stayed in a beautiful bed and breakfast called the Pinehurst Inn. It was this gorgeous Victorian home, and it's known as one of the top eco-friendly B&Bs in all of North America, which we thought was cool! Bayfield is a really cool town. It's small (only 600 people) but very artsy; there were lots of cool galleries and shops there. I was surprised that there was so much there for such a small town!

Here is our room (which was named the Salmo Room):







Here's me hanging out on the porch


The front room, where we spent a lot of time reading and relaxing


The dining room; the food every morning was SO good


The music room


A view from the outside:

The Apostle Islands Tour

When were on vacation, we decided to take a cruise of all 22 Apostle Islands, since the only one we could reach on our own was Madeline Island by ferry. It was a three-hour tour, which was great in that it allowed us to see a lot of stuff! We did end up seeing all 22 islands; very cool.

Here is a view of the marina from the ferry (you can see the windows reflected in the picture, haha).


Us in front of our cruise ship


The town of Bayfield (where we were staying); this is the view from the ferry



Some views on the tour...


These are the sea caves, which we then saw close up











Isn't that cool? These are the sea caves that have been hollowed out over millions of years. If we were kayakers (which we're not!) we could actually kayak in here; how cool.





Again, you can see the reflections of the windows, hehe :)










We also saw a lot of lighthouses on our tour. This is the Raspberry Island Lighthouse, which is known as the most beautiful. It's a duplex-type of structure, and the lighthouse keeper and his family lived on one side, and his assistant and his family on the other. Supposedly, the families would compete for who had the most beautiful gardens.

Rori's Birthday

Yeah, yeah, I know, Rori's birthday was almost three months ago. So I'm a little late in getting pictures up... anyway, here is our precious goddaughter on her 6th birthday. She wasn't feeling that well, but she still really wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese, so off we went (even though it was ghet--to....)






She is really into High School Musical, so we got her an HSM book as well as the HSM DVD (the first one; she had the second, and they got HSM 3 shortly after her birthday).

Disney World: The Animal Kingdom

More Disney World pictures, this time from the Animal Kingdom.


The first thing we did was rush to Mount Everest (the new roller coaster) and get fast passes. But since there was a short wait (15 minutes or so) we decided to go on it then, too, so we got on it twice. It was still kind of chilly, so I'm wearing Dan's sweatshirt :)


Standing outside Mount Everest, which Dan, Kirsti, my mom and I went on :)


Rori posing on one of our walks through the "jungle"


At the food court.


My mom :)


I really am not that big, I promise, but I had to wear Dan's sweatshirt because I was really cold, and it makes me look huge.


Some wildlife we saw on our safari...

Epcot: Part II

Here are some more photos of our Disney World trip (still at Epcot):


Since England is my favorite country (well, I'm assuming, since I haven't actually been there yet!) I of course had to take lots of pictures in the English part of Epcot.




Here's us in "Canada." Aren't the gardens beautiful?










From L-R: my aunt Chris, my mom, Kirsti, Matthew, my grandma, Tracy, me, Rori and Katrina. Where's Dan? Oh, yeah, he's taking the picture.


Tracy, me, Rori and Dan.