Vacations Are Exhausting

I took a nap this morning, at like 9am — and I didn’t wake up til Noon. Seriously. I was snoring and everything, TW said so.

That’s just crazysauce, isn’t it? Me? Napping in the morning? for HOURS? Madness.

After my little nap, we threw on our clothes and headed for Peninsula Park, with a stop for lunch at Village Cafe, in Egg Harbor.

Village Cafe is a cute little cafe, with lots of fun things to look at (and buy, though we didn’t buy any — we were tempted by painted cats, birdhouses and robots.) We had NO cell service while we were there, which we’re slowly getting used to. So funny to see 20-something girls with iPhones pull out PAPER planners to talk to their friends about planing visits and trips and parties. When you live (or visit often) Door County, your life can’t be in your iPhone. (Now that’s scary.)

My only real goal for our Peninsula State Park visit was to climb Eagle Tower. I could have thought of some other things to do but some people made fun of me for suggesting we might do OUTDOOR things in WINTER. So, whatever. We climbed the tower and that was cool. Also cold, because of the wind. But very cool.

Then we climbed down and started walking the Sentinel Trail. TW said she didn’t want to walk the whole thing, so we walked up to a snowman and then cut back — and then off-trail to backtrack to Eagle Point. We saw no eagles, just a lot of snow and ice. It was pretty, in a snowy and icy sort of way. And really quiet. There were others there — some snowshoers and hikers and families climbing Eagle Tower but still, very quiet.

Then we headed for the farthest end of Door County: Sister Bay, Gills Rock and then all the way to the Washington Island (car) Ferry landing. It was quiet up there — not very much open and not a lot of traffic or people around. We stopped at Bea’s Ho-made and bought pickles and more cherry things and then drive back via Bailey’s Harbor.

We tried to stop at the Motorcycle Memorial but nobody had cleared the parking lot of snow, in forever, so there was no way to stop and look around. Too bad, I was looking forward to that.

Then, back to Sturgeon Bay where we stopped at a toy store on Jefferson and bought a ton of presents for JMP and then dinner at The Neighborhood Pub & Grill (great artichoke dip & pita chip appetizer!)

Thank goodness for a super-hot whirlpool tub — my body is tired!