Wilmot, WI On our day off school and work we made a fun day at Wilmot Mountain. It was on our winter bucket list! Previous attempts to visit over winter break, and the Martin Luther King holiday didn’t work out with the warmer temperatures. The temperatures finally dipped enough for the park to create snow…
Round Lake, IL Round Lake has a couple of great museums for younger children. I took my 4 year old to explore both of these and he had a ton of fun. These museums are great spots for those who are local. Round Lake Children’s Museum Our first stop was the Round Lake Children’s Museum….
Schaumburg, IL On the last day of summer break for the boys, before they head back to school the next day, we do a special family day. This year we decided on visiting Legoland Discovery. The locations is about an hour away from our house and we went in with the plan to be there…
Louisville, KY After spending time in the mountains we headed north to our last stop on our journey, Louisville, Kentucky. This stop included changing it up by exploring a downtown and staying in a hotel. Previously we had been at a rental house in the Smoky Mountains. We parked the car in the parking garage…
Townsend, TN After spending a day downtown Gatlinburg we had a day planned in the Smoky Mountains National Park. The first stop on our planned route was The Sinks. This area is 12 miles west of the Sugarlands Visitor Center entrance into the park and is one of the most picturesque waterfalls. Before driving into the…
Gatlinburg, TN After visiting Chimney Rock next up on our stop was good ole’ Gatlinburg, Tennessee. I was excited for the kids to experience the fun downtown that I had been to a couple times growing up. We woke up bright and early to avoid as much traffic as we could to head into the…
Chimney Rock, NC After saying our goodbyes to the Way family we headed west. Our next stop was planned a couple of hours out to Chimney Rock. Still in the state of North Carolina, a couple of hours out from Charlotte. We arrived in the small town of Chimney Rock and saw lots of shops…
Charlotte, NC Our pick for our summer vacation this year was our first family road trip. My sister recently moved to North Carolina with her family so that gave us the idea. In addition, I thought our children were over the hump of bad traveler stage now at 8, 5, and 4 years old. Discovery…
Milwaukee, WI After lunch we headed downtown Milwaukee to the Public Museum. We easily found paid parking about a block from the museum. Then headed inside to explore. After buying our museum admission tickets we headed over to the Daniel M. Soref Planetarium and Dome Theater to watch our included Planetarium program. We saw the…