Vacation blog 1: Ely!
So, it would be way too time-consuming to do one enormous blog detailing my trip, all that I saw and did, what with the many, many visual aids that will be contained (I weep for thee, dialup).
Consider this the first in a possibly 5-part installment about Jo's first vacation in YEARS. It was much needed, let me tell ya.
Part 1:
Ely, Minnesota
Its a small town way up by the Boundary Waters, closer to Canada than any large Minnesotan city.
Its pronounced Ee-lee... not Ee-lie. Noob. It's Erik's mother's hometown.
We stayed a the Grand Ely Lodge. Very nice place. Erik's family has been going up there for years and this time they invited me along.
My picture of the lodge kinda sucks so I hunted down some nice ones online:
Here's Erik hydrating in our room.
Shagawa Lake is behind the lodge and was very pretty. Here are views from the lodge's balcony.
The only good close-up shot of us the whole vacation and its taken during our last meal the day we left. Cute though :)
a mural by the lodge. They are big on murals in this town... you'll see.
Wildflowers!
In front of the lodge is Miner's Lake. This lake used to be an iron mine that Erik's grandfather worked at way back in the day. When they closed the mine they stopped pumping the water out and this big lake with a 4 mile perimeter formed.
The Town of Ely
I took a walk around town and took pics of whatever caught my eye. Its a small town so the walk lasted less than an hour.
Part 2 will elaborate on what we did with our time in Ely.