flashback: day trip to Mt. Horeb and Blue Mound State Park

A couple of weekends ago we decided to finally start using our annual state park pass (great gift from Andy and Shari!). Dave heard Blue Mound State Park was great and it was closeby, so we thought that would be good for Owen's sake.

The Blue Mound park is about 45 minutes (if that) from Madison - heading west. On the way there we stopped in Little Norway. It would have been cool to do the tour, but we knew we had limited time with Owen and we really wanted to tour Cave of the Mounds so we just took some fun pictures in the gift shop instead. The gift shop was so cool, by the way - I love a good gift shop!

Our little Viking!

We got to the park, but the weather was kind of touch and go with off and on thunder and lightening and being as the park is atop the highest hill in southern Wisconsin, we weren't messing around with lightening. So, we had a quick picnic and did a little bit of walking and exploring but eventually got scared off by the weather.

Since it seemed like a storm was coming, we decided to go tour the caves at Cave of the Mounds. Got our tickets, watched the little introductory movie, and then head into the caves to start the tour. Well this is right when Owen decides he does NOT want to sit through a tour, or he's freaked out by being underground, or he's freaked out because the other baby started crying...who knows. But we bailed. It was the first time we have ever truly walked out of anything with Owen. So, I guess there's a first time for everything!

On the way home we drove through Mt. Horeb - a cute little town known for it's troll history and statues and "Trollway." It is, in fact, the troll capital of the world!