Door County and the Pate wedding

I know everyone loves to hear the play by play of our trips so here is another one, only with pictures. This trip was without our children but we did go with another couple, Courtney and Aaron. You will see pictures of them throughout also. We left Thursday night after work, and headed to the Super 8 about 1.5 hours from the Door. Not the greatest hotel but good for a night's sleep and a little breakfast the next day.

Our trip to the Door began early on Friday, with a quick stop at the world's largest grandfather clock. Very weird and cool all at once. After the clock was our first winery of the day. Door Peninsula

I nice winery located in a old school house with many wines to try. We picked up a few bottles of our favorites as did our traveling partners from here it was on Simon Creek Winery.

Another set of great wines, our favorite of the trip and two of the folks working there were from Peoria. Crazy! Another two bottles of wine in the Explorer and it was time for beer at the Shipwrecked.

Aaron and Courtney enjoying some good beer at the Shipwrecked, did I mention they were free. (I love WI) Cheese curds, beer, and an amazing day. One more winery to go, fish boil, and Haunted Door County Tour.

The last winery was a little disappointing. We did not buy any wine. Time to eat some fish. If you have never been to a fish boil go. One of the coolest things I have ever seen. Great food and awesome beer, New Glarus Spotted Cow. Carrie was a true camera person hanging in to get a great shot after the rest of us bail out.

Our last stop of the whirlwind day was the haunted tour. Carrie and I have taken a few ghost tours and have never seen anything or had anything that one would consider supernatural. This tour proved to be different. Both Carrie and Courtney took pictures of the same thing within a few minutes of each other with different cameras and got the same images. The cameras were fine all day and fine soon after. Check out the awesome sunset photos from the tour and the weird images.

I would also tell everyone to take this tour and enjoy all the great stories. I even heard a new one about the Door County Strangler/Slasher.

I will leave you with great photos of the wedding.