Vacation in Hayward Wisconsin

At the end of July Eric and I went on vacation.  It was fabulous and we loved it, except for the humidity.  I have definitely become a dry climate girl.  We went to Hayward, WI, which is a small tourist town in the middle of no where Wisconsin.  Right next to where I grew up.

We arrived a day early to spend my Dad's birthday with him.  My parents are divorced and Dad wasn't going to be spending the week with us.  We made it a family affair of course with Lyle, Deyonne, Aunt Vida, and Ag also joining the crowd.  We ate at my favorite restaurant Bona Casa. Mmmmmm mmmm good.  I worked there for two years in high school and love it to this day.  Home made Italian!!!!

Uncle Lyle with Liam

See everyone thinks this food is fabulous!

It was nice to breath some fresh air and get to do small touristy kinds of things such as visit the biggest Muskellunge in the USA.  This thing is huge!

You can see my nephew and his Aunt Shannon here in comparison to the HUGE musky

I caught a really big fish.  Not my first fish caught and not my last.

Sisters

Sisters and Grandma Lucy

This is in the mouth of the fish.  Yup, you can go inside it and it has a ton of lures that are antiques and pictures of old people that helped build it and stuff.  A lot of stairs also.

Grandma and Mom in front of another species of fish.  This is a fishing museum so the Musky was one of many.

We also shopped and of course we got a couple things for our little guy.  We stopped into a candy shop on the main street and Eric went JELLY BELLY wild in there!  I have pictures but I need to scan them and promise to post them as we walked out with a 5.4lb bag of Jelly Belly's.  I love them too but 5lbs worth! We had to fit that somewhere in our luggage.... All the Jelly Belly's have now been consumed and I figured out after eating so many that my favorite flavor is Pear.  I will have to ask Eric his favorite. 

My mom and sisters threw me a small baby shower with just them which was really nice.  Baby Brnak got a lot of cute clothes and books and we went to Coos Baby Designs in Hayward and he got even more stuff!!

We not only went to the fish museum but we went mini golfing and had a camp fire and a lot of other stuff that I would have taken pictures of but our camera was stolen out of our luggage.... I hate US Airways now and if they do not respond to my complaint of this they will loose me as a customer forever.  I don't have electronic versions of some of the pics but will scan soon. 

My favorite part of course was spending time with the family.  I love our little family and want to spend more time with them whenever possible. 

Gary, my brother in law, making a "Liam face" He's the best!

Went wine tasting... preggo lady took pictures

Isn't this kid dang cute!

Liam and Aunt Karissa:)

Last day before we left and a slight glimpse of our rented "cabin". 

Yay for vacation and we are headed back to the Midwest next week for a wedding I am in.  It should be fun and I will post pictures when we get back!