Lutsen!

After Duluth, we met up with our neighbors and good friends, the Frasers who were kind enough to host us at their family cabin in Lutsen. The drive up was beautiful! I always forget how incredibly beautiful Lake Superior is. The drive up the coast is just wonderful.

We went to the resort to swim in the pool and we had the whole pool to ourselves. They have a slide that dumps into the pool and Cailin and her buddy Caleb went up and down that thing about 50 times. Andrew then got up the courage to try as well as long as mommy caught him (which I did...). So he had fun too.

Andrew was trying so hard to make his 'monkey cheeks' (what they learned at swim lessons to keep the water out of the mouth/nose).


We went out for a great dinner at the resort as well at Papa Charlies. The resort seemed actually kind of quiet and the snow wasn't fantastic, but it has been a very odd winter and we have more snow at home then they do up in Lutsen if you can believe that - or at least they did BEFORE yesterday's snowstorm.

We headed up to Grand Marais to check it out - we went and threw rocks into the lake, shopped at the most well-stocked Ben Franklin store I've ever seen (they had anything and everything you could possibly want and/or need there) and some other cute shops. Plus the town itself is really quaint. And the weather was fairly warm as well, which helped!




The kids played and played.



Andrew's favorite is playing foosball alone or with others, he didn't seem to care.


We went sledding outside on the HUGE hill leading to the creek and also on the side of the house in the courtyard area. There were a few minor mishaps where some kids accidentally hit trees during the sledding expeditions, but no permanent injuries were had - thankfully!



After the kids went to bed, the adults got to hang out, play games, watch movies, chat and have a blast too! The kids and adults all had a wonderful time. None of us were ready to leave to return home.