The Shore

Travel. Luke and I both love travel. If we had an infinite supply of vacation days and two incomes we would be traveling all the time. Being that right now we are both in school and only Luke is working, we won't be doing much traveling. We also realized - halfway through our winter break - that because I'll be going to school throughout the summer and that our spring breaks don't line up - we won't even have the opportunity to go anywhere. Bummer. Last year at this time we were planning our February trip to Italy....so we started experiencing a little "cabin fever", realizing we can't go anywhere.
We took a spontaneous trip up to Duluth for one night. Visiting the North Shore in January probably wasn't our brightest idea ever - but we did have fun! We stayed at the Canal Park Lodge, which has great views of Lake Superior and is a really nice hotel. They had the best continental breakfast ever! I highly recommend this place. The rooms with the lake view are great - some also have balconies....not necessary in January...but would be great in the summer.


We walked along the water, shopped along Canal Park and had dinner at Little Angie's Cantina. Margaritas and enchiladas (pronounced in MN as Aunt-chiladas, not EN-chiladas).


The next morning we did some more shopping and walking around (freezing from wind off the water) and ended with lunch at Grandma's. We then headed back to St. Paul, stopping at the Outlet Mall in Cambridge. The one disappointment of the trip was Betty's Pies - which has very limited hours in the winter...they were closed when we were there:( We did learn, however, that there is a new location in White Bear Lake...which just might be worth the drive one day.