After deciding to both take a vacation day to do something fun, we decided to spend the day exploring different cities and sites around our extended neighborhood.

To start we headed to Lion’s Den Gorge in Grafton, WI after hearing Morgan visit there last fall. It was about an hour away from our home in Pewaukee, but it was as if we transported to Hawaii (kind of, minus some palm trees) for a moment. It’s a quick hike through the park and down to the beach of Lake Michigan.

Next we drove thru Cedarburg to see what was all there, but thanks to a sleeping Emerald, we just took it all in from our windows.

We then dropped off Emerald at my parents, to enjoy a little date night. We hit up some mini golf (you can guess who won), then ate dinner and explored downtown Delafield by walking around the city and by Lake Nagawicka with some ice cream.