Days 43 & 44 Cass Lake, MN

When we left Iron River, Jim realized that we were running low on wine (horror) so we decided to stop at a wine store in Duluth.  No offense to anyone from Duluth, but we had no idea how large a city it is.  So here I am navigating Jim (with trailer in tow...) through downtown Duluth in search of this specifc wine store that I found online.  We could not have gotten luckier with regard to finding the shop and parking the monstrosity trailer nearly in front of Fitzger's, which was a hotel, restaurant and wine shop.  The bonus was that they make their own beer too so, of course, Jim had to get some of that too:)

We got ourselves out of Duluth with relative ease and headed for Cass Lake.  On the way we bought Power Ball tickets but we have no idea whatsoever if we won (dang, if so, we could just keep on traveling!).

We arrived at Cass Lake, which was an interesting area.  We camped at Stony Point, which is an RV/Campground, a restaurant and a marina... they have loads of pontoon boats so our infatuation with those boats continues!!  Our particular camp spot was nothing to write home about (mostly dirt...) but the entire campground was very nice.  The lake is pretty large and they have fishing as well as a nice swimming area with large inflatable toys and a water slide for the kids to play with. Too bad it wasn't very warm... grr..

After we set up camp, the boys immediately headed for the playground area. Jim and I toured the campground.  We had to pry the boys out of the playground to get them to come back for dinner!  They were having a blast.  It was pretty cold that night so we hung out inside the trailer.

The next day dawned sunny (yay!) so we decided to head out on our bikes. We ended up taking a 14 mile ride which was wonderful.  The scenery was beautiful.  We came back to have lunch at the restaurant, which was delicious, and then Jim took the boys fishing.  Faith and I took a ride in the truck.  I was hoping to get it washed but that didn't work out so we just explored the local area.  I haven't driven at all so I wanted to make sure I still remembered how:)

I got back around the same time as Jim and the boys so we headed down to the lake so they could swim.  Of course, Faith was totally on board with this plan!  We hung out down there until the fickle sun decided to hide behind the clouds and it cooled off.  Fortunately it was nice enough to eat outside.  The boys and Jim built us a fire, which was a welcome change from being cooped up inside due to the weather.