Too many things to do. This Saturday Tammy had to get materials ready for Vacation Bible School signup at St. Olaf’s and we were invited to a party at Dan and Jane Flynn’s to send Meghan and Carson off to North Carolina. So, yet again another “abbreviated” ‘Splorin’ Saturday.
We started off by hitting the Hot Spot Cafe in Augusta, WI. If you have not been here … GO!!! It is the quintessential smalltown diner. In addition to eavesdropping at Supper Club Saturday, another past time we have developed is enjoying the little “coffee klatches” we have seen at many of these small town diner-type restaurants that we have been stopping at for breakfast. The interesting thing is that early Saturday mornings the klatches consist mainly of men (nary a woman in sight at them). We don’t know if they are sobering up after a night of beer drinking at the local bar, or trying to wake up further after milking their cows in the morning – but they sure enjoy their breakfasts and we sure enjoy their company! We ate our typical Splorin’ Saturday breakfast omelets and salads (instead of hashbrowns — Mike says 😦 .
Since we had so much other stuff going on, we had to keep it local and relatively short, so we headed off to Lake Wissota State Park. One of Tammy’s requirements was that we need at least 30 minutes in between breakfast and hiking, so we were cutting it close here, but I think it was a 35 minute drive. So many trails and so little time. Lake Wissota State Park is an interesting park in that the trails allow hikers, mountain bikes and horses. Obviously not all of them allow bikes and horses, but it does add to the number of trails.
We headed off along the edge of the lake by the beach. As we walked along towards the campground we never even noticed that we were going slightly uphill. All of a sudden we were by the campground and a long way above the lake — kind of strange to not even notice the incline <insert dramatic ominous foreshadowing music for future Splorin’ Saturdays here>. When we got above the campground we turned towards the center of the park and the trail changed from a mostly dirt, narrow trail to wide, cut-grass trail. The grass harbored …MOSQUITOES… dammit — we forgot bug spray!!! So, for the next 4 to 5 miles we did the “Richard Simmons” thing again ( it was bad but not as bad as “Freakin’ mosquito infested Straight Lake”). The trails were fairly easy — what we would call a nice walk in the woods/prairie — no big hills or difficult sections at all (with the exception of the mosquitoes).
On our way home from the park we we passed The Edge Pub and Eatery. We have been there twice before — once with the Geberts and once …. hmmm… there was an awkard couple there for prom with their parents, but we cannot honestly remember why we were there that night. 😉 So, we did a “Supper Club Saturday: Lunch Edition” since we would be at Meghan and Carson’s party later.
Splorin’ is such fun — EVERYONE should do it!!!!
Splorin' Saturday 