This blog is way late but I gotta get it out there. For spring break 09 we went to N. Minnesota, a little town called Ely (if there was a road that drove straight from "Ely-pronounced eee-ley", then we could have been in Canada in 15 minutes). We like to do things different so we decided to go dogsledding. We also enjoy going to cold places...for example we went to Chicago in 07 from Dec 25-Dec 30th, yes freezing but extremely fun. So a freezing wintry place for spring break would not be much of a stretch for us. We flew into Duluth then took a 5hr car trip north. We stopped at Lake Superior. It is by far "superior" to any lake I have ever seen. Check out the pics of me sitting on ginormous blocks of ice. That is lake superior.
We got to our little place and find out we would be staying in a small 2-story log cabin with all the amenities (minus a TV, radio, Computer, and phone signal), it was fantastic. No technology to distract us or take away from our time. From here I'm going to give you just a quick rundown or else this blog could go on for forever. The place employs a true french chef. Diner every night was fantastic, every meal included fabulous dessert (creme brulee, cream puffs, etc). We both gained 5 pounds on this trip. Each day we got our team of dogs and went sledding across the country, we sledded across several frozen lakes. Our guide took care of everything, including lunch that he cooked for us over a campfire 2 separate days. It was awesome. One day is snowed on us and it was gorgeous. The dogs were awesome and wonderfully sweet hard workers for pulling 2 grown adults across the country for 3 days. Everything was awesome. The town is so small that everything pretty much shuts down by 6pm. The company that does this is called Wintergreen. They have a pretty amazing story on how it all started. If you ever want to do something "different" you should try this. It truly is for ages 8-80!
