yuper duper

About 3 weeks ago, Mikey and I packed up the car for a day of snow shoeing. We intended to do a nice hike along the south shore of Lake Superior due to lots of lake effect snow this year. After a pit stop at the Ashland Baking Company, we decided to keep driving so that we could enjoy our chocolate filled croissant. After all, the U.P. of Michigan was only another 45 minute drive. I'd never been to the U.P. but heard lots about it. We drove back in to the Porcupine Mountains and hiked along a river.
It was a beautiful day. 20+ degrees and snowing.




Anna likes to "ride" on the backs of Mikey's snow shoes:
waterfalls:
After an hour of intense snow shoeing, we made it to the big lake. Mister ambitious thought we needed to climb the mother of all hills for a better view:
And it was totally worth it! Lake Superior was swelling like a monster, the wind was whipping, the snow was coming down heavily and it felt so desolate:
We had an absolute blast!!

You can't help but love winter on days like these.